Local Development Environments for Web Design

Name: Local Development Environments for Web Design
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How to install and configure a local dev environment using LAMP stacks.

Created byKray Mitchell

Last updated 12/2013

English

What you'll learn

Understand what a Local Development Environment is.
Install and configure MAMP, XAMPP or WAMP to run php & mySQL applications
Install Joomla! or WordPress CMS (Content Management Systems)

Course content

4 sections • 31 lectures • 1h 37m total length

Introduction2:31
We will be learning how to install 3 different LAMP stacks for local development. MAMP (Mac), XAMPP (Mac and Windows) and WAMP (Windows)

Download and Install2:08
Configuration3:22
Start Page1:45
phpInfo0:41
This quick video shows you the phpInfo page and gives you a brief overview on it.
phpMyAdmin1:56
Creating and deleting databases.
Finding and Editing the php.ini file.1:39
Where to locate and edit the php.ini file when you need to modify the php configuration.
Locate and edit your httpd.conf file1:33
Where to locate the httpd.conf file if you need to modify your Apache configuration.
Joomla! Installation on MAMP4:33
How to download and install the latest version of the Joomla! CMS into MAMP.
View and Export Joomla! Database in phpMyAdmin1:47
Viewing the database after Joomla! has been installed and how to export the database.
WordPress Installation on MAMP4:12
How to download and install the latest version of the WordPress CMS into MAMP.
View and Export WordPress Database in phpMyAdmin0:41
MAMP in a min.

Download, Install and Configure5:43
How to download, install and do the basic configuration of XAMPP for Mac OS X.
Welcome and Overview5:37
Review the following options from the left menu: Welcome, Status, Security, Components and Applications. We also do a brief description of the demos.
phpInfo0:35
Brief overview of the phpInfo page.
phpMyAdmin2:29
An overview of phpMyAdmin and how to create and/or remove a database.
Webalizer0:57
A brief overview of Webalizer.
Finding and Editing the php.ini file2:15
How to locate and edit your php.ini file in XAMPP
Joomla! Installation on XAMPP9:05
How to download and install the Joomla! CMS into XAMPP.
View and Export Joomla! Database in phpMyAdmin2:22
How to backup your Joomla! database, drop tables and delete your database.
Wordpress Installation on XAMPP4:40
Download and install the Wordpress CMS into XAMPP
View and Export Wordpress database in phpMyAdmin2:18
How to backup your database, drop tables and remove the database.

Download and Install4:25
We will be going through how to download and install WAMP in Windows 7
Services3:34
This is a review of the Apache and MySQL services from the WAMP menu.
WAMP Page and phpInfo2:37
We will take a look at a few more options in the WAMP menu, as well as the phpInfo file.
phpMyAdmin2:27
A quick overview of using phpMyAdmin to create and delete a database.
SQLBuddy2:16
A quick overview on how to add and delete a database using SQL Buddy
Download and Install Joomla!8:22
We go through the process of downloading and installing Joomla! into WAMP
Backup, Modify and Delete the Joomla! Database3:05
We look at how to backup our Joomla! database, delete our database and drop tables from our database.
Download and install WordPress5:31
How to download and install WordPress into WAMP.
Backup, Modify and Delete the Wordpress Database2:35
How to backup and remove your WordPress database, as well as how to drop tables.

Requirements

Macintosh Computer running OX 10.7 or higher OR
Windows Computer running Windows Vista or higher

Description

If you have been building websites in HTML and are ready to move forward into using php/MySQL based applications, this course will teach you what a Local Development Environment is and how to install the top CMS software to start development of your website when you're ready.

We will go through the install and setup of MAMP (Mac), XAMPP (Mac) and WAMP (Windows). Once we have the local environment setup and configured, I will show you how to install both Joomla! and WordPress in each system.

Who this course is for:

Web designers looking to move beyond HTML
Web Developers who are just learning about Local Development
Anybody wanting to setup a local web server quickly and easily

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 3min

MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, MySQL and PHP)11 lectures • 24min

XAMPP Macintosh (Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl)10 lectures • 36min

WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP)9 lectures • 35min

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