The quest for a lightweight development environment for local PHP development.

1. Lightweight Development

2. Roger López
@zroger

3. I develop locally.

6. The old ways...

7. MAMP

8. System-wide services

9. Newer ways

10. Vagrant

11. Dev-friendly hosting

12. drush runserver

13. Everything to the
foreground!

14. My Ideal Solution
• Runs in the foreground. Start, stop, go away.
• Easily use different configurations per project.
• Uses easily installable services (homebrew).

15. httpd -d . -f httpd.conf -DFOREGROUND

16. minimal httpd.conf
https://gist.github.com/zroger/5990997
76 lines, heavily commented

17. #
# Minimal httpd.conf for running apache in the foreground for local php
# development.
#
# Setup:
# 1. Place this file in the root of your project.
# 2. Make sure the ./tmp directory exists (for the pid and lock files).
# 3. Update the DocumentRoot and Directory directives with the relative path to
# your project's document root.
#
# Usage:
# httpd -d . -f httpd.conf -DFOREGROUND
#
# Relative file paths in this file are relative to the server root, which is
# assumed to be set from the command line option, as in the about usage.
#
ServerName localhost
Listen 8080
PidFile tmp/httpd.pid
LockFile tmp/accept.lock

18. Automate it.

19. foreman manages
Procfile-based
applications

20. Procfile
web: httpd -d . -f httpd.conf -DFOREGROUND

22. Procfile
web: httpd -d . -f httpd.conf -DFOREGROUND
db: mysqld --log-error=/dev/stdout
cache: memcached -v
search: solr ./example/solr/

24. Roger López
@zroger

25. Phase2Technology.com