Lightweight web app server for PHP?

Question

I\'m doing PHP development. And coming from a Rails background, I\'m looking for a like-for-like replacement for Webrick in PHP. Is there such a light weight server? Something w

Answer 1

I use Apache for PHP development.

On Windows I recommend installing XAMPP - it's a full pre-configured PHP/MySQL stack.

Mac OS X can be a bit trickier, but I've managed with the pre-installed setup.