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Drupal on your laptop

This document provides instructions for setting up a local Drupal development environment on your desktop using MAMP. It outlines the necessary software, including MAMP, Drupal, drush, and GitHub. It then walks through configuring the virtual host, installing Drupal, enabling drush, and connecting the local site to GitHub for version control. The goal is to have a fast, easy, and safe way to run and debug a Drupal site locally.

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Drupal on your Desktop
Drupal on your Desktop Running a webserver and database locally
Drupal on your Desktop Running a webserver and database locally • Fast • Easy • Safe • Eliminates network issues in debugging
Things you’ll need
Things you’ll need Several easy packages available
Things you’ll need Several easy packages available • MAMP (or WAMP) - http://www.mamp.info/ • Drupal • admin password for your machine
Things you may want
Things you may want Recommended
Things you may want Recommended • drush • wget • a good text editor • GitHub for Mac
MAMP
Hostname edit your /etc/hosts: add 127.0.0.1 mysite.mydomain.local This will allow your browser to find your local site
Drupal Unpack Drupal into your htdocs /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
Drupal Create your site directory at /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/sites/mysite.mydomain.local Copy sites/default/default.settings.php into sites/mysite.mydomain.local as settings.php Create sites/mysite.mydomain.local/files Set permissions (chmod 777 *)
MySQL Visit phpMyAdmin Set a root password Create an empty database and a user/password set with access to it
Virtual Host setup edit your /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf: 1. Check that NameVirtualHost *:80 is not commented out 2. <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs" ServerName d7tester.resonetrics.local </VirtualHost>
Install Drupal Visit mysite.myserver.local Go through standard install process
Install Drush Get drush from drupal.org/project/drush Unpack wherever it’s convenient Add drush to your $PATH or make an alias in /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, etc.
Use Drush Navigate to sites/mysite.myserver.local in your terminal type “drush” for a list of commands drush up - updates your modules and runs update.php drush cc - clears cache drush dl <project_name> - downloads a module drush en <project_name> - enables the module for the current site only
Git and GitHub Go to github.com and make an account Generating ssh keys: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys http://mac.github.com/