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PHP Architect · Vol 21, Issue 11 · November 2022

Education Station: Making Our Own Web Server: Part 2

by Chris Tankersley

One of the biggest laments of PHP is that it does not have a dedicated web server and instead relies on an external program like Apache or NGINX to handle the incoming request. Modern versions of PHP do ship with a development server, but that server is not recommended for production use at all. This is not just because it is normally single-connection only (though there are flags to make it multi-threaded) but because there are better tools to handle the web serving—like Apache and NGINX.

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Chris Tankersley

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Chris Tankersley

Chris Tankersley is a husband, father, author, speaker, podcast host, and PHP developer. He works for InQuest, a network security company out of Washington, DC, but lives in Northwest Ohio. Chris has worked with many different frameworks and languages throughout his twelve years of programming but spends most of his day working in PHP and Python. He is the author of Docker for Developers and works with companies and developers for integrating containers into their workflows.

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