Gulp Livereload server not starting

Question

I am attempting to get gulp working with livereload. Gulp is not in control of the webserver itself (the actual web app is a php site. When I run nmap on the server I don't see livereload working, and the chrome extension indicates the same thing.

Here is my gulp task:

gulp = require 'gulp'
{livereload} = require('gulp-load-plugins')()

gulp.task 'watch', ['styles'], ->
    livereload.listen()

    gulp.watch './public/include/less/**/*.less', ['styles']
    gulp.watch('./public/include/css/**/*.css').on('change', livereload.changed)

Answer 1

Here is a simple and tested livereload solution based on connect server and connect-livereload and gulp-livereload plugins:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var connect = require('connect');
var connectLivereload = require('connect-livereload');
var opn = require('opn');
var gulpLivereload = require('gulp-livereload');

var config = {
    rootDir: __dirname,
    servingPort: 8080,

    // the files you want to watch for changes for live reload
    filesToWatch: ['*.{html,css,js}', '!Gulpfile.js']
}

// The default task - called when you run `gulp` from CLI
gulp.task('default', ['watch', 'serve']);

gulp.task('watch', ['connect'], function () {
  gulpLivereload.listen();
  gulp.watch(config.filesToWatch, function(file) {
    gulp.src(file.path)
      .pipe(gulpLivereload());
  });
});

gulp.task('serve', ['connect'], function () {
  return opn('http://localhost:' + config.servingPort);
});

gulp.task('connect', function(){
  return connect()
    .use(connectLivereload())
    .use(connect.static(config.rootDir))
    .listen(config.servingPort);
});

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EDIT.

I missed the PHP part. I haven't worked with it but this might help you: https://github.com/micahblu/gulp-connect-php