HTTPServer
http://github.com/youngj/httpserver
A simple HTTP server, 
 written in PHP, 
 that serves PHP scripts and static files,
 for use in developing PHP applications.
Motivation:
 * To allow running PHP scripts in a web browser on a development computer 
 without needing to install a web server like Apache or Nginx. 
 * To allow automated scripts (e.g. Selenium tests) to spawn a HTTP server with 
 custom environment variables (e.g. to override some application config settings),
 and easily capture server log output.
 * To allow more rapid debugging, by printing stderr output (e.g. error_log()) 
 directly to the console instead of a server log file.
Dependencies:
 * PHP 5.3 or higher
 * php-cgi binary 
Features:
 * Works on Windows as well as POSIX systems.
 * Can handle many concurrent connections using non-blocking sockets.
 * Implements HTTP Keep-Alive for better performance.
 * Clients can define basically any server configuration / rewrite rules
 just by creating a subclass of HTTPServer.
 * Nearly all PHP scripts should work without modification. (Each PHP 
 request is run in an isolated environment using PHP-CGI.)
 * Does not require any PHP extensions.
 
Caveats:
 * Should NOT be used as a production web server open to untrusted traffic.
 * Not very robust (e.g. no connection limit or timeouts)
 * May have security flaws
 * On Windows, PHP requests will block the server until the php-cgi process 
 completes (PHP on Windows cannot share sockets across multiple processes,
 and does not have non-blocking pipes).
 * PHP scripts that depend on server-specific extensions (e.g. functions like 
 apache_*, iis_*, nsapi_*) will not work.
 
How to use:
 Clients should subclass HTTPServer and override the route_request() method
 (and possibly other methods as necessary). 
 See examples/example_server.php. 
 
License:
 See LICENSE.txt