Setting up a local web development enviroment

Clone the php.net sources

$ git clone https://github.com/php/web-php.git

Symlink (or move) the generated PHP documentation to your local php.net sources

$ cd web-php/manual
$ rm -rf en
$ ln -s ../../output/php-web en

Symlinking can also be done on Windows. Just make sure you run cmd as an Administrator.

$ cd \your\path\to\web-php\manual\
$ rmdir /S en
$ mklink /D en \your\path\to\output\web-php

Run a webserver

We are going to use PHP's built-in web server. Please open another terminal instance for this task.

$ cd phpdoc/web-php
$ php -S localhost:8080 .router.php

View the new site

Open http://localhost:8080/manual/en/ in your browser.