Laravel Artisan General Command: The serve Command

The serve command is used to run the application using the PHP development server. This command is generally used for development and testing purposes. The serve command accepts two optional options: host can be used to change the address of the application (by default this is localhost) and port. The port option can be used to change the port the application responds to (by default this is 8000).

The following examples demonstrate how to use the serve command:

 1# Start the development server with default options.
 2php artisan serve
 3 
 4# Change the development server address.
 5php artisan serve --host=homestead.app
 6 
 7# Change the development server port.
 8php artisan serve --port=8080
 9 
10# Change the development server address and port.
11php artisan serve --host=laravel.app --port=8080

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