Quickly serve a local directory with PHP built-in server.

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Quickly serve a local directory

php -S localhost:8000

You directory is accessible on: http://localhost:8000

Create an alias for it

In ~/.bashrc add:

alias serve='open http://localhost:8000; php -S localhost:8000'

Now you can just use the serve alias. It will launch the server and open the url in you default browser.

Note: open is an Mac OS X command, you should be able to find a similar command on other systems though.