Drupal Quickstart: Pre-made Development Environment

A pre-packaged downloadable PHP/LAMP Development Environment for Drupal

Why spend time learning WAMP/XAMP/MAMP/Cygwin/etc, when websites are deployed on LAMP? Why hack up your Mac/Windows computer?

Want some Demo videos? Documentation? Group?

New in 1.0! Now, i386 and amd64 versions. Shared websites folder by default, software updates, bug fixes, and more!

Installation: (Video, FAQ)

1. Download Quickstart Which version?:
   • Quickstart 1.0 i386 (32-bit. Compatible.)
   • Quickstart 1.0 amd64 (64-bit. Newer hardware.)
2. Install Virtualbox (version 4.0.4+)
3. Import Quickstart virtual machine (.ova file) into Virtualbox:
   • Start Virtualbox
   • File -> Import Appliance -> Choose file... -> (select the downloaded ova file)
   • Set RAM to 50% of your system ram. (min 1024mb, max 2048mb)
   • Import -> (wait for import to finish)
   • (Error? FAQ)
4. Start the new machine from the list
5. Start developing! Passwords:
   • Unix = quickstart:quickstart
   • MySQL = root:quickstart
   • Drupal = admin:admin
6. Howto and install videos

What's included:

• Support for Drupal 7 and Drupal 6
• Ubuntu Linux, Apache, MySQL, APC, XDebug, IMAP, UploadProgress
• Firefox (with developer plugins) and Chrome
• Drush, drush make, and custom drush commands
• Install scripts for: Apache Solr, Aegir, Hudson, and Oracle
• Netbeans and Eclipse, configured with XDebug
• XHProf and Webgrind profilers. Emails logged as files
• cvs, subversion, git, bazaar

Special Thanks!
OSUOSL (Oregon State Universities Open Source Lab) for hosting the project downloads! Thanks to Killes, Jeff_S, and Lance for making it happen :-)
Also thanks to Michelle and Sil Kogelman for helping with the process. Go open source!

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