This command runs on the before_wp_load hook, just before the WP load process begins. Uses php -S to launch a web server serving the WordPress webroot. <http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php> Importantly, PHP’s built-in web server doesn’t support .htaccess files. If this is a requirement, please use a more advanced web server. - [--host=<host>]
- The hostname to bind the server to.
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default: localhost
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- [--port=<port>]
- The port number to bind the server to.
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default: 8080
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- [--docroot=<path>]
- The path to use as the document root. If the path global parameter is set, the default value is it.
- [--config=<file>]
- Configure the server with a specific .ini file.
# Make the instance available on any address (with port 8080) $ wp server --host=0.0.0.0 PHP 5.6.9 Development Server started at Tue May 24 01:27:11 2016 Listening on http://0.0.0.0:8080 Document root is / Press Ctrl-C to quit. # Run on port 80 (for multisite) $ wp server --host=localhost.localdomain --port=80 PHP 5.6.9 Development Server started at Tue May 24 01:30:06 2016 Listening on http://localhost1.localdomain1:80 Document root is / Press Ctrl-C to quit. # Configure the server with a specific .ini file $ wp server --config=development.ini PHP 7.0.9 Development Server started at Mon Aug 22 12:09:04 2016 Listening on http://localhost:8080 Document root is / Press Ctrl-C to quit.
These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress. | Argument | Description |
--path=<path> | Path to the WordPress files. |
--url=<url> | Pretend request came from given URL. In multisite, this argument is how the target site is specified. |
--ssh=[<scheme>:][<user>@]<host\|container>[:<port>][<path>] | Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of “docker”, “docker-compose”, “docker-compose-run”, “vagrant”). |
--http=<http> | Perform operation against a remote WordPress installation over HTTP. |
--user=<id\|login\|email> | Set the WordPress user. |
--skip-plugins[=<plugins>] | Skip loading all plugins, or a comma-separated list of plugins. Note: mu-plugins are still loaded. |
--skip-themes[=<themes>] | Skip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes. |
--skip-packages | Skip loading all installed packages. |
--require=<path> | Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once). |
--exec=<php-code> | Execute PHP code before running the command (may be used more than once). |
--context=<context> | Load WordPress in a given context. |
--[no-]color | Whether to colorize the output. |
--debug[=<group>] | Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help. |
--prompt[=<assoc>] | Prompt the user to enter values for all command arguments, or a subset specified as comma-separated values. |
--quiet | Suppress informational messages. |
