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add sidebar for the built-in server in VMs
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cookbook/web_server/built_in.rst

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terminate it (this is usually done by pressing Ctrl and C).
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By default, the web server listens on port 8000 on the loopback device. You
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can change the socket passing an ip address and a port as a command-line argument:
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can change the socket passing an IP address and a port as a command-line argument:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ php app/console server:run 192.168.0.1:8080
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.. sidebar:: Using the built-in Web Server from inside a Virtual Machine
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If you want to use the built-in web server from inside a virtual machine
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and then load the site from a browser on your host machine, you'll need
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to listen on the ``0.0.0.0:8000`` address (i.e. on all IP addresses that
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are assigned to the virtual machine):
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ php app/console server:run 0.0.0.0:8000
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.. caution::
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You should **NEVER** listen to all interfaces on a computer that is
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directly accessible from the Internet. The built-in web server is
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not designed to be used on public networks.
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Command Options
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