Creating a Drupal sandbox using VirtualBox and Drupal Quickstart
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A brief overview of the benefits of creating a local instance of Drupal, called a "sandbox", and how to create a working version quickly using the Drupal Quickstart project. See http://wp.me/p2FI0z-nO for related blog post.
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setting up your own drupal sandbox
ed marshdrupal northern nj (nnj) user groupnew jersey institute of technology (njit)
self-promotion
ed marsh technical writer content strategist drupal enthusiast homebrewer ▪ mmm beer
edmarsh.com @edmarsh http://www.linkedin.com/in/edmarsh/ http://www.slideshare.net/theedmarsh/
tools
virtualboxhttp://virtualbox.org
drupal quickstarthttps://drupal.org/project/quickstart
optional: sass/scss/compass – css preprocessors firebug/chrome web dev tools make file generator – customized drupal
builds
why create a local sandbox? worry-free way to learn drupal
easy to set up learn to manage a server if you mess it up, delete it and start over!
runs on any OS – no need to config mac/windows no MAMP/WAMP/XAMPP/CAMP/STAMP needed
all open source – just like drupal can push to production site when ready no bandwidth issueszero dollars
why use drupal quickstart? LAMP stack pre-configured
linux (ubuntu)/apache/mySQL/PHP drush (DRUpal SHell – command line interface) sample make files sample drupal 6/7 sites already up and
running netbeans code editor gitg version control user(me)
= lazy; = busy; != dev;
make file generator
http://drushmake.me/ select:
drupal version modules themes libraries (jQuery, etc) modules folder go!
drush
control your entire site through a command line interface (CLI)
download modules/themes: drush dl projectname
enable downloaded items drush en projectname
config virtualbox/quickstart
open virtualbox import appliance quickstart .ova start vm open terminal cd websites
create your drupal site!
drush quickstart-create sitename makefile.make
magic! automatically creates
drupal site with name you specify
downloads selected modules/themes from make file
configs mysql db instance creates cron job (run on
timer)
resources
virtualbox:http://virtualbox.org
drupal quickstart: https://drupal.org/project/quickstart
drush make file generator:http://drushmake.me/
drush command reference:https://groups.drupal.org/node/28088
g.d.ohttp://groups.drupal.org
