Simple WebDev server set for Windows
The web development server set is made just of batch (.bat) scripts. The set is portable, you can store it on a flash drive.
If you don't want to install anything on your Windows machine or you want your project to use specific program version without reinstalling programs on your machine, or you just don't want to use heavy web development environment, this is for you. You control everything – you can can read and edit the batch scripts, if you want.
Currently this set contains of:
- newest [stable] PHP
- NginX
- PostgreSQL
Usage
You can choose the program versions to install by editing the install_versions.conf file. The programs are being downloaded and extracted by executing install.bat script. You can also store pre-downloaded program files in install_files directory. If you don't want to install some program, remove its configuration line from install_versions.conf file.
N.B. Check if the newest [stable] PHP version number is set in install_versions.conf file, because PHP doesn't keep older PHP versions for download. For this reason you may want to pre-download it, if you plan to distribute this set for other people to use without making them to configure anything.
To start all programs, execute the start_everything.bat script. To stop all programs, execute the stop_everything.bat script. To start/stop programs seperately, execute other scripts which has very self-explanatory names.
The public web directory is www/public.
The PHP and NginX configuration is stored in config directory.
Default PostgreSQL username is homestead and password is secret – just like in Laravel Homestead.
Requirements
This probably works on any Windows 7/8/10 with pre-installed .NET 4+ (used for downloading and extracting ZIP files).
If you want to use PHP, the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017 is required to be installed on Windows machine. The install.bat script will open a download page for it, if it is not installed.
Also a small utility [RunHiddenConsole.exe](https://redmine.lighttpd.net/attachments/download/660/RunHiddenConsole.zip', 'install_files\RunHiddenConsole.zip) is being downloaded and used to start programs without keeping the "black screens" open.
License
This set of batch scripts is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.