title: How to let php artisan serve run as a background server to work like Apache?
body: <p>I setup a Laravel app on a VPS. It's for demonstration purposes only.</p>
  
  <p>I would ssh login to the VPS using PuTTY and type:</p>
  
  <pre><code>php artisan serve --host x.x.x.x
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Everything works fine. However, when I close the PuTTY connection, the server shuts down.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to let the artisan server run in the background just like Apache?</p>