Advise the server for development on PHP. Used XAMPP, WAMP and OpenServer. I want something at the same time simple and beautiful. There are no special requirements, the main thing is to support PHP7 and MySQL.

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    It is necessary not to put "simple and beautiful", but what is as close as possible to the combat conditions ... - PinkTux
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    There is a suggestion to specify the OS. - Max ZS
  • I use Xampp. For me, simple and beautiful, installed version with PHP7 - ilyaplot

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Alternatively, you can use the built-in server provided by the PHP distribution. In this case, you do not need anything other than PHP.

php -S localhost:4000

As a result, the contents of the current folder will be available at http: // localhost: 4000 . If the rights of the current user allow you to occupy port 80, you can start the server on port 80

 php -S localhost:80

Then you can contact http: // localhost /

You can specify not only the current, but also an arbitrary folder, for example, www

 php -S localhost:4000 -t www

With the -c option, you can specify the path to php.ini

 php –S localhost:4000 -c /etc/php.ini

If you wish, you can even broadcast from this server to the outside (for example, if you want to show the results on the local network, it is certainly better not to use it for production)

 php –S 0.0.0.0:4000 -c /etc/php.ini
  • How in this case to be with MySQL? - Nikita
  • @ Nikita Just put separately a regular distribution with mysl.com, connect to work with it through php.ini. There are usually no problems. - cheops

Try Caddy .

Of the advantages: very easy to configure, fast, written in Go.

  • Thanks for the answer, caddy liked. - Nikita

Homestead - is based on vagrant, but has its simple config. As a result of the installation will be Ubuntu 14.04 with already installed software:

  • Git
  • PHP 7.0
  • HHVM
  • Nginx
  • Mysql
  • MariaDB
  • Sqlite3
  • Postgres
  • Composer
  • Node (With PM2, Bower, Grunt, and Gulp)
  • Redis
  • Memcached
  • Beanstalkd
    1. Install Vagrant
    2. Collect a config for it at puphpet.com
    3. (optional) Install vagrant-hostmanager plugin to automatically update hosts ( vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager in console)
    4. (optional) Add some preparatory scripts, aliases, etc.
    5. vagrant up in the directory with the config

    It sounds worse than it actually is. The main advantages for me are that:

    • With the ready config, the preparation of the environment will take a couple of minutes
    • We get a small (well, maybe not very) Linux with all its advantages and without unnecessary suffering

      The question is incorrect. A web server is a server that accepts HTTP requests from clients. What you listed is XAMPP, WAMP - development platforms that include a web server.

      If you need php7 and mysql - set yourself php7 and mysql. If you need a web server - nginx, apache, php built in , etc at your service.