Laravel: php -S localhost vs php artisan serve

Question

New to both PHP and Laravel. Getting my "Hello, World!" page up and kept getting a 404 "The requested resource / was not found on this server." error with Laravels included routing/view. I was using php -S localhost:8000 for my local server and didn't realize I had to use Laravel's localhost (didn't even realize it had one) "php artisan serve" to host my page. My questions are:

• Is there an advantage to using Laravel's localhost vs PHP's?
• If I want to change how my localhost is, um, hosted, how do I do that? Example if I wanted to use PHP's built-in server vs Laravel's.

I'm pretty new to programming in general, let alone php/Laravel, so my apologies if this is a very basic question or one that doesn't even make sense. Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

You can use

php -S localhost:8000 -t public

which also is the only difference between artisan serve and the standard php dev server. artisan serve simply adds the correct path to the server, there's no further magic involved.