mhulse / slimple

Simple Slim PHP starter repo.

Slimple

Simple Slim PHP starter repo.

PHP built-in server

$ composer start

… and visit http://0.0.0.0:8080/.

This will not load the .htaccess file!

Apache dev option

To test .htaccess, setup an Apache vhost:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	DocumentRoot "/root/path/to/site.local/public"
	ServerName site.local.local
	ServerAlias www.site.local.local
	ErrorLog "logs/site.local.local-error.log"
	CustomLog "logs/site.local.local-access.log" combined
	#DirectoryIndex index.html
	<Directory "/root/path/to/site.local/public">
		AddDefaultCharset utf-8
		IndexOptions +FancyIndexing NameWidth=*
		Options -Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
		AllowOverride All
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
		Require all granted
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Add 127.0.0.1 site.local.local to your hosts file and restart your local dev Apache.

Use this approach if you want to test the rules found in the .htaccess. Once that's solid, feel free to use the php built-in server.

Install Composer dependencies:

Install Composer:

$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Get the composer-installable code:

$ php composer.phar install

If/when needed, update Composer dependencies using:

$ php composer.phar update

WARNING: You should never run composer update on the production machine!

[after] deploy[ing] your updated composer.lock, [you should] then re-run composer install. You should never run composer update in production. If however you deploy a new composer.lock with new dependencies and/or versions (after having run composer update in dev) [you can] then run composer install [and] Composer will update and install your new dependencies [onto the production machine’s deployment].
– “composer update” vs “composer install”