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It’s our 200th episode! For this video, I wanted to take a look at how to set up a local development system and then configure that to build a Drupal 7 site. In this video, I show you how to download MAMP, a local solution stack. For those not familiar with MAMP, MAMP stands for Mac OSX, Apache, MySQL, and Php. This full stack allows you to run a server on your local computer. In other words, using MAMP (or WAMP for windows) you will be able to run and build a Drupal site just like you would if you were hosting it on a third party's server (ie GoDaddy, Acquia, Pantheon, etc).
This is the first video in a three-part video series where you will learn how to install and configure MAMP. In the following two videos, I will show you how to download and configure Drupal and then show you how to set up the best file structure for getting started on the right foot.
As I mention in the video, I am using MAMP due to the Mac OS I am using. If you would like to see a video showing how to download and configure WAMP (Windows version of the local stack) just let me know in the comments.
About Drupal Sun
Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:
- Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
- Facet based on tags, author, or feed
- Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
- View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created
See the blog post at Evolving Web