How to start the webserver Edit

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You can use the command wp server to launches PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php.’s built-in web server for a specific WordPress installation. By default, the webserver will start using the localhost and default port 8080 but, you can change them using the --host and --port options.

Step 1 – Start the web server using the default settings

    $ wp server
    PHP 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.4 Development Server started at Thu Jun  4 17:40:13 2020
    Listening on http://localhost:8080
    Document root is ../wpdemo.test
    Press Ctrl-C to quit.

The command above starts the server using the default settings. We can now open our browser
and visit the link http://localhost:8080 to access our WordPress installation.

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Step 2 – Start the web server using different settings

If you want to specify a different port number or host, you can pass them to the following flags:
--port and --host

    $ wp server --port=9090 --host=192.168.0.4

The command above will start the webserver and listen for requests on http://192.168.0.4:9090
you can open the browser and visit the page to access your WordPress installation.

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