laravel - Set port for php artisan.php serve

Question

How do we set a custom port for test server?

Normally when we do

php artisan serve

the folder gets served as :

localhost:8000

How do could we access one folder as:

localhost:8080

I want to access two different development sites on my localhost.

Answer 1

Laravel 5.8 to 8.0 and above

The SERVER_PORT environment variable will be picked up and used by Laravel. Either do:

export SERVER_PORT="8080"
php artisan serve

Or set SERVER_PORT=8080 in your .env file.

Earlier versions of Laravel:

For port 8080:

 php artisan serve --port=8080

And if you want to run it on port 80, you probably need to sudo:

sudo php artisan serve --port=80