Creating a New Local Development Site

Local filesystem

• Create directory on littledamienii
• /develop/[SITE_GROUP]/[WEB_ROOT]

Create Git repo

• See: Creating a New Git Repo
• Open Git Bash.
• Navigate to site root.

$ git init

• 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: (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.

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+- _config/
|  |
|  +- app_config.php
|  +- core_includes.php
|  +- globals.php
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+- _templates/

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.

m:\path\to\web_root\> compass init

• See Using Sass: Configuration for specific settings within the config.rb file.

Install & configure Grunt

See Using Grunt with Web Projects

• TK: Basic workflow

Create a MySQL database

Workflow is outlined in the Setting Up MySQL Databases for New Websites article.

CMS

Configuring LITTLED libraries

See 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/