How to start local server with symfony 5 or downgrade version to 4.4?
Solution 1
The Web Server Bundle is not included with Symfony 5.
But you can simply require
it and install it separately.
E.g.:
composer require symfony/web-server-bundle 4.4
It is important that you specify the version (4.4), because otherwise it will attempt to install version 5 (which does not exist, and it will fail).
After that you'll be able to run bin/console server:run
as you used to do.
Otherwise, you may use the Symfony CLI as well. This is an executable binary which includes the Symfony Server by default. Then you may run symfony server:start
or the better know alias symfony serve
to start the local webserver.
Read more about Symfony's server here.
You can also use the built-in web server in the PHP runtime. Just go to your project's root directory and run:
php -S localhost:8000 -t public/
It's not a fully featured webserver, but for developing purposes it is usually more than enough.
Solution 2
For running a local web server you can now use Symfony Client, or simply 'Symfony'.
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Download the binary and install it globally.
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Open a terminal and run once:
symfony server:ca:install
. This will install a local SSL certificate authority that allows you to run the local webserver onhttps://
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Inside the terminal, move into your project directory and run
symfony serve
. A local webserver will start; by default onhttps://localhost:8000/
.
If you wish to run the webserver on another port you can use symfony serve --port=8080
(in this case port 8080
). For the most useful commands Symfony Client has to offer, simply run symfony
. To see all available commands run symfony help
.
Solution 3
I am using symfony 5 and I just replace the former command php bin/console server:run
" by php -S localhost:3000 -t public
and it works in a similar way.
-t
public to indicate the targeted file.
Fradé
Updated on February 03, 2022Comments
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Fradé about 2 years
I started a new project in new Symfony 5 and i can't open my local server.
On Symfony 4.4 the command PHP
bin/console server:run
is OK,But with Symfony 5 the command appears not to be defined...
C:\Users\Chris\Code\api-test> php bin/console server:run Command "server:run" is not defined. Do you want to run "server:dump" instead? (yes/no) [no]:
So how to downgrade or start the local server?
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SpicyTacos23 almost 4 yearsThis should be markes as the right answer. Thanks pal
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Jesús Franco over 3 yearsshould be noted that server:run provides no significative advantage over builtin php's web server, and server:start does not run with symfony 5.*+