Tools for setting up an environment
One of the initial hurdles to getting started with Drupal is a local development environment. This recipe will cover how to set up the DrupalVM project by Jeff Geerling. DrupalVM is a VirtualBox virtual machine run through Vagrant, provisioned and configured with Ansible. It will set up all of your services and build a Drupal installation for you.
Luckily you only need to have VirtualBox and Vagrant installed on your machine and DrupalVM works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Getting ready
To get started, you will need to install the two dependencies required for DrupalVM:
- VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
- Vagrant: http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
How to do it…
Let's set up the DrupalVM project ...
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