Start/Stop the application

Start the application

To start the application, simply open a terminal:

With Edu CLI With composer Native mode

If you have the latest version v2.x or higher, start the application with the following command:

php bin/edu start

If you have version v1.1 or lower, start the application with the following command:

composer edu:start

If you are at the root of your project, you can start the application with the following command

php -S localhost:8042 -t public

Here is an example of the command-line output:

Here is an example of the resulting web page:

Application address

This command starts the development server at http://localhost:8042.

The start command options

The php bin/edu start command has options (from version v2.3.0):

Option	Description
-p or --port	Changes the listening port of the development server (default: 8042)
--no-start	Checks your environment's prerequisites without starting the development server

Example to start the application on port 9090:

php bin/edu start -p 9090

Example to check the prerequisites without starting the server:

php bin/edu start --no-start

Request logging

When the server is started with php bin/edu start, every HTTP request received is logged in an SQLite database (var/logs/core_logs.sqlite). These logs can be viewed from the profiler.

Stop the application

To stop the application, simply go to the terminal where you started the application and press CTRL + C.

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Startup problem

Failed to listen on localhost:8042 (reason: Address already in use)

This error means that listening port (socket) 8042 is already in use (or was not closed properly). To fix this error, you can "kill" the process attached to the listening port.

WINDOWS MAC OS

On Windows, the command to kill the process bound to port 8042 is slightly different. Here is how to do it:

FOR /F "tokens=5" %P IN ('netstat -a -n -o ^| findstr :8042') DO TaskKill.exe /F /PID %P

This command works in two parts:

1. netstat -a -n -o ^| findstr :8042: This command lists all the processes using port 8042.
2. TaskKill.exe /F /PID %P: This command uses the extracted PID to kill the process.

The command to kill the process bound to port 8042 on macOS is the following:

lsof -i :8042 | awk 'NR!=1 {print $2}' | xargs kill -9

This command works in three parts:

1. lsof -i :8042: This command lists all the processes using port 8042.
2. awk 'NR!=1 {print $2}': This command extracts the process number (PID) from the output of the previous command.
3. xargs kill -9: This command uses the extracted PID to kill the process.