Slides from a demo at Drupal Camp CT 2012

1. Drupal on your Desktop

2. Drupal on your Desktop
Running a webserver and database locally

3. Drupal on your Desktop
Running a webserver and database locally
• Fast
• Easy
• Safe
• Eliminates network issues in debugging

4. Things you’ll need

5. Things you’ll need
Several easy packages available

6. Things you’ll need
Several easy packages available
• MAMP (or WAMP) - http://www.mamp.info/
• Drupal
• admin password for your machine

7. Things you may want

8. Things you may want
Recommended

9. Things you may want
Recommended
• drush
• wget
• a good text editor
• GitHub for Mac

10. MAMP

11. Hostname
edit your /etc/hosts:
add
127.0.0.1 mysite.mydomain.local
This will allow your browser to find your local site

12. Drupal
Unpack Drupal into your htdocs
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs

13. 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 *)

14. MySQL
Visit phpMyAdmin
Set a root password
Create an empty database and a user/password set with
access to it

15. 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>

16. Install Drupal
Visit mysite.myserver.local
Go through standard install process

17. 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.

18. 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

19. 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/