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Quickstart Drupal Development Environment

For installation, see the Quickstart project page

Quickstart is a pre-made downloadable development environment for Drupal.

It provides "state-of-the-art" development and testing tools, without requiring users to:
1) Hack up their personal computer.
2) Spend time learning how to hack up their personal computer.

If you find this documentation useful, please drop me a note so I know to continue to improve it.

1) FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

What is Quickstart?

2) Getting started with Quickstart

Getting started with Quickstart

3a) Remote Access Quickstart: Bridged Networking

Out of the box, Virtualbox has the host computer (Windows/Mac) to act as a NAT for the guest (Quickstart). This means Quickstart can see the

3b) Remote Access Quickstart: Easy remote desktop with RDP

Remote Access Quickstart

4) Quick tips

This page is a list of somewhat random tips on using Quickstart:

5) Debugging and Profiling (XHProf, etc)

See drupalquickstart's Channel on Youtube for details on how to debug in Netbeans, and profile with XDebug and Webgrind.

6) Add-ons in the etc directory: Aegir, Solr, Oracle, Hudson

There are some scripts in the ~/quickstart/contrib directory that can be used to install Aegir, Apache Solr, Oracle, and Hudson.

7) Requirements & Performance: Making Quickstart quicker

Any modern computer should be able to run Quickstart. To get the most out of performance, I recommend the settings below.

8) Reinstalling Guest Additions, or My Mouse is Stuck!

This is outdated by Quickstart 0.9

9) Building a Quickstart Virtual Machine

Note: This is unnecessary if you want to *use* quickstart. Just follow the installation instructions.

Recovering a wedged Virtual Machine.

There are times when a Quickstart VM may get wedged and not boot. Wether it's that lastest update, an experimental tweak, or just plain old

Securing a Quickstart Development Environment

Important Note Quickstart 1.0 is not secure, and is intended to be run only on your local pc behind a firewall. The user "quickstart" has

Setting up Drupal Quickstart projects in Eclipse (with Git)

The Drupal Quickstart virtual machine ships with multiple code editors to edit project files such as PHP, CSS, HTML, and JS (JavaScript).

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