A lightweight Windows PHP development environment that launches Apache + PHP without bundling MySQL or other databases.
Powered by Python, WinAPDev makes it easy to spin up a minimal PHP server with virtual host management, service control, and SSL certificate support.

• 🚀 Quick launch of Apache + PHP on Windows
• 🐍 Python-powered control (start/stop/manage)
• ⚡ Lightweight compared to full stacks like XAMPP/WAMP/Laragon
• 🎯 Focused only on PHP development (no MySQL or extra services)
• 🖥️ CLI commands for managing services & virtual hosts
• 🔒 Supports self-signed SSL certificates for HTTPS projects
• 📂 Virtual host manager with auto hosts file update

• Windows 10/11
• Python 3.8+
• Apache HTTP Server
• PHP (any supported version)

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/WinAPDev.git
   cd WinAPDev

2. Create and activate a virtual environment:

   uv venv
   .venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install dependencies:

   uv pip install -r requirements.txt

Navigate to the project root folder and activate the virtual environment:

.venv\Scripts\activate

• Apache & PHP Path → configure in config/settings.json
• Virtual Hosts → managed under conf/httpd-vhosts.conf
• Certificates → stored in cert/ folder (auto-generated if SSL is enabled)

Add a new project with virtual host:

python run vhost:add --hostname=project.local --dir=C:\Projects\myapp --port=8080

WinAPDev/
│── src/                  # Core Python source code
│── run                   # CLI entry script
│── requirements.txt       # Python dependencies
│── README.md              # Documentation

• Fork the repo
• Create a new branch (feature/my-feature)
• Commit your changes
• Submit a Pull Request

• Add PHP version switcher
• Add GUI management tool
• Add MySQL or any other database (optional, separate package, configuration based, command based)
• Add project templates for Laravel / WordPress

Contributions are welcome! Please check the issues page or open a new one for feature requests and bug reports.

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.