Such features are far beyond the scope or purpose of this development tool:

  http://framework.zend.com/wiki/x/tgY

I would recommend using Apache or Lighttpd or similar to obtain the feature set below.

Cheers,
Gavin

Abu Hurayrah wrote:
Sounds like a great idea, Mat. I do have one question, though - can it or components from it be utilized to emulate certain server-based functions, such as file downloads & custom HTTP responses & behaviors, from within a PHP script running as a module of, for example, Apache? Say we want to have resumable downloads delivered from a PHP script, or implement HTTP caching at the PHP level (sounds strange, but let's not limit ourselves), for example.

Mat Scales wrote:
(cross posted to fw-general and fw-webservices)

I have commited an initial version of the debugging/testing web server project into SVN. It can be found in trunk/incubator/tools/http_server/. It is capable of serving up static files and PHP scripts. Try it!

To run a server, start the 'server-start.php' script. It has the following arguments:

-h <host ip> - The IP address to bind to (NOT the domain name). By default it will bind to 127.0.0.1, which will mean that you will only be able to access the server if you are using a web browser on the same computer as the server.

-p <port> - Which port to bind to.  Defaults to 8000.

-d </path/to/document/root/> - Set the document root to serve files from. Defaults to current working directory.

Once you have started the server, you can connect to it at http://<host ip>:<port>/<filename>, e.g. http://127.0.0.1:8000/test.html

Some known issues:

* Requires PHP to be built with socket support (--enable-sockets passed to configure) * No current way to apply aliases or rewrite rules so MVC applications will not work (yet) * When visiting http://localhost:8000/ it will not look for index.html, index.php, etc. It will in fact serve up a blank page. * $_COOKIES and $_FILES will always be empty and some elements of $_SERVER are not set.
* Never been tested on Windows - may or may not work!
* Doesn't meet the coding standards, there are no unit tests and this is the only documentation. Not that any of that is important ;)

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