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If you run a website based on PHP, and have your source files on a network file system like NFS, OCFS2, or GlusterFS, and combine it with PHP's open_basedir protection, you'll quickly notice that the performance will degrade substantially. If you want to isolate your websites from each other (or from the rest of the operating system), how can you retain any shred of performance?
MAMP on OS X is a great way to quickly get started on Apache/MySQL/PHP development locally on a Mac. Unfortunately, I've found th
As I've said before, we love drush. It's hard to imagine doing Drupal work without it. If OS X is your workstation, it's pretty simple to install with pear, as described on the project page. Let's review that method and cover two others, git and Homebrew, and how to keep them updated.
All commands listed below are to be executed on the command line with the Terminal application. But if you use Drush regularly then you already knew that!
In each of my posts on setting up a local development environment on OS X, it's mentioned that you need to add your website's domain, even though it's local, in your /etc/hosts
In my previous post, I walked through how to set up a local environment using Nginx running on port 8080 so as to avoid running anything as root or with sudo. Something that I've found incredibly annoying is when I forget to specify the port I get an error in my browser, or Chrome might even suggest something based on a search term. It's fairly easy though to configure Apache to route everything to another port.