serve symfony 5 project to host machine from VMware

On my VMWARE running debian 10 I started a new project using:

composer create-project symfony/wesite-skeleton myproject

I served it using:

php -S 0.0.0.0:8987 -t public

And it worked

Trying to kickoff with the framework i created a controller and wanted to return some HTML

Now my project won't load and instead it sends

An exception occurred in driver: could not find driver

I think it has to do with the php server and tried to look into how to serve using apache: I tried using the apache-pack and didn't find the .htaccess file Some more research and i understood that apache only serves through /var/www/html

Yet I want to serve my symfony 5 project from my VMWARE debian 5 to my Windows 10 through the VM ip and a persnalised port. Please help

Solution

The answer is kind of clear but i think the lack of documentation has to do with how hard it is to solve it.

The php server is enough
In the .env file one HAS to setup the MySQL database using his username & password
Make sure you can login to your MySQL -and have a database set for your project- using a username other than root and grant that user all priviliges "Must be able to login to msql -u <user> -p without sudo.
Additional step and i don't know if everyone has to do so: in /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini at a line where there is a line ;extension=pdo_mysql you decomment this line -delete the ; and change it to extension=pdo_mysql.so to avoid the PDO driver not found Exception

hope this helps future users