Windows development environment

Installing Drupal on Windows for local usage

Installing Drupal on Windows for local usage.

Installing Drupal with DDEV in WSL2 on Windows

How to install Drupal with DDEV in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) and integrate it with Visual Studio Code (VS Code).

• Overview, system requirements & virtualization
• Installing WSL2 & Ubuntu
• Installing Docker, DDEV & Drupal in WSL2
• Integrating Visual Studio Code with WSL2, DDEV & Drupal
• Drupal best practice settings

Running Drupal on a USB drive with USBWebserver

UsbWebserver provides a fully functional, portable WAMP stack that may be used to distribute or store a production Drupal site on a USB

Using XAMPP

Documentation for using XAMPP for Drupal development

• Quick install Drupal with XAMPP on Windows
• Configure virtual hosts and more on XAMPP
• Sub directory based multisite using XAMPP
• Skype interferes with XAMPP on port 80