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Instaweb is a drush command which starts a development webserver on localhost for the current drupal installation much like rails server or django-admin.py runserver.
Compatibility and Requirements
Instaweb runs on Linux and requires lighttpd and mod_magnet.
Installation
Issue the command drush pm-install instaweb wherever you like it. Probably the best choice is in ~/.drush. Refer to the drush README.txt for more choices.
Usage
$ drush help instaweb
Run a development webserver for this drupal instance
Options:
--bind Bind the testserver to this ip
address. Default: localhost
--port Use specified TCP port. Default:
3000
--server Path to lighttpd binary. Default:
/usr/sbin/lighttpd