Server Shell

The ServerShell lets you stand up a simple webserver using the built in PHPwebserver. While this server is not intended for production use it canbe handy in development when you want to quickly try an idea out and don’t wantto spend time configuring Apache or Nginx. You can start the server shell with:

$ bin/cake server

You should see the server boot up and attach to port 8765. You can visit theCLI server by visiting http://localhost:8765in your web-browser. You can close the server by pressing CTRL-C in yourterminal.

Note

Try bin/cake server -H 0.0.0.0 if the server is unreachable from other hosts.

Changing the Port and Document Root

You can customize the port and document root using options:

$ bin/cake server --port 8080 --document_root path/to/app