Serving Drupal 7 with built-in PHP 5.4 server

The task is basically to encode Drupal's .htaccess in PHP for your router.php file.

Here's a start:

<?phpif (preg_match("/\.(engine|inc|info|install|make|module|profile|test|po|sh|.*sql|theme|tpl(\.php)?|xtmpl)/", $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"])) {  print "Error\n"; // File type is not allowed} elseif (preg_match("/(^|\/)\./", $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"])) {  return false; // Serve the request as-is} elseif (file_exists($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"])) {  return false;} else {  // Feed everything else to Drupal via the "q" GET variable.  $_GET["q"]=$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];  include("index.php");}

This should be considered alpha quality. It represents a 3 minute walk through Drupal 7.14's .htaccess file, skipping anything that needed more than 10 seconds of thought. :)

It does, however, allow me to launch Drupal's install script, with stylesheets, JS and images loaded as expected, and hit Drupal's pages using Clean URLs. Note that to install Drupal in this environment, I needed a patch that may not become part of Drupal 7.

You can now more easily launch a server with the command:

drush runserver

I was looking for a solution myself and I found one in in the Drupal 8 issues:

This works great for me now in my existing Drupal 7 install(s):

Save this as .htrouter.php (or whatever you wish) and run in your Drupal root dir with:

php -S localhost:8080 .htrouter.php

<?php/** * @file * The router.php for clean-urls when use PHP 5.4.0 built in webserver. * * Usage: * * php -S localhost:8888 .htrouter.php * */$url = parse_url($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);if (file_exists('.' . $url['path'])) {  // Serve the requested resource as-is.  return FALSE;}// Remove opener slash.$_GET['q'] = substr($url['path'], 1);include 'index.php';

(snippet built from https://drupal.org/files/router-1543858-3.patch)