Editing Creating a New Local Development Site

== Local filesystem ==
* Create directory on `littledamienii`
* `/develop/[SITE_GROUP]/[WEB_ROOT]`

== Create Git repo ==

* See: [[Git_Workflow#Creating_a_new_repo_out_of_an_existing_site|Creating a New Git Repo]]
* Open Git Bash.
* Navigate to site root.
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
$ git init
</syntaxhighlight>
* Copy `.gitignore` file from existing site and edit it to suit the new site.

== Create subdomain ==

=== IIS ===

* Log in to local Windows server.
* Open IIS MMC. 
* Local server > Sites > right click: Add web site
** Site name: [PLAIN_ENGLISH_NAME]
** Physical path: (navigate to the new web root directory)
** Connect as: (authorized account)
** Host name: [SUBDOMAIN].dbarchowsky.com

=== Domain registrar (Namecheap) ===

* No action required here (unlike with GoDaddy).

=== NetBeans ===

* '''File''' > '''New Project'''
* '''Choose Project'''
** '''Categories:''' PHP
** '''Projects:''' PHP Application
* '''Name and Location'''
** '''Project Name:''' ''[SITE_NAME]''
** '''Sources Folder:''' ''(navigate to site root (using LAN network name of server))''
** '''PHP Version:''' ''(match whatever's on production)''
* '''Run Configuration'''
** '''Run As:''' Remote Web Site (FTP,SFTP)
** '''Project URL:''' `http://[SUBDOMAIN].dbarchowsky.com/`
** '''Remote Connection:''' ''([[Uploading_Files_from_Netbeans|create a connection]] for the production server)''
** '''Upload Directory:''' ''(put the path to the site root here, not in the remote connection)''
** '''Upload Files:''' manually

== Hosting site as subdomain of littledamien.com ==

* TK

== PHP/HTML framework ==

* TODO: Create a boilerplate framework within the shared directory to build off of. 

<pre>
|
+- _config/
|  |
|  +- app_config.php
|  +- core_includes.php
|  +- globals.php
|
+- _templates/
</pre>

== Install & configure Sass & Compass ==

* Installing and configuring Compass also installs Sass, which is a prerequisite for Compass.
* The compass commands work in both powershell and cygwin.
* In a shell, navigate to the project directory.

<syntaxhighlight lang="powershell">
m:\path\to\web_root\> compass init
</syntaxhighlight>

* See [[Using_Sass#Configuration|Using Sass: Configuration]] for specific settings within the `config.rb` file.

== Install & configure Grunt ==

See [[Using_Grunt_With_Web_Projects|Using Grunt with Web Projects]]

* TK: Basic workflow

== Create a MySQL database ==

Workflow is outlined in the [[Setting_Up_MySQL_Databases_for_New_Websites#Workflow|Setting Up MySQL Databases for New Websites]] article.

== CMS ==

=== Configuring LITTLED libraries ===

See [[Littled_Content_Properties_CMS| Littled Content Properties CMS]]

=== Shared JavaScript libraries ===

* Create virtual directories for whatever libraries will be used for the site, e.g. `littled`, `poshytip`, `tiny_mce`, etc.
* Create a virtual directory for the jQuery UI stylesheets.

=== Shared AJAX utility scripts ===

* Create virtual directory for `/_ajax/images` and `/_ajax/utils/`

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