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PhpFox-Site Administration-Set up a development site

Set up a development site

Not an easy topic, but if you're here you want to make things right from the start. Some of the benefits of having a development site is that you get to test first hand if any change you plan on making will break anything, will look how you want it, etc.

There are two types of development sites depending on your needs and possibilities

A local development site

If you are just one developer or site owner (not a team) then a local set up is usually a good start. You dont need to share your code changes with anyone else or report anything to anyone but you.

On Windows

The first step is to have a local web server. While you can download Apache, Php and MySql separately there is really no need for this and our recommended approach is to just download and install XAMPP. Assuming the installation went fine your public documents' folder will sit on C:/xampp/htdocs This is where you want to put your local files and the phpfox script.

Since you used XAMPP you should now already have a working web server, you can proceed with the normal Phpfox Installation instructions

On Linux

You will need several packages installed, Apache + Php5 + MySql 5. If you are on debian you can try the following command:

~$ sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-curl php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-imagick php5-mysql php5-ffmpeg mysql-server phpmyadmin ffmpeg

I may have left some packages out but this should prompt to install any dependencies, let me know if theres any missing so I can add it. (mcrypt is needed for phpmyadmin and curl and gd for phpfox).

You will be required to enter a password for the root user in MySql, do NOT lose this password, it is very important and powerful.

More complete guides on how to set up a LAMP can be found on howtoforge.

If everything went fine you should now have a working server, if you point your browser to http://localhost you will get an Apache page saying everything is ok.

Now we want to have Apache set up so if you browse to http://development.mysite.com it will show your site in your local computer. This does not mean we are going to install the script right now, only tell Apache that when you look for development.mysite.com it should look for the local computer and not a site from the internet.