Quickstart Drupal Development Environment

Hello, I just released an update to Drupal Quickstart:

Version 0.9.1

This release works almost exactly the same as the 0.9 release, but fixes two issues:

• Drush make file problem that appeared after the Git migration
• Git 417 errors caused by squid proxy server

Great job on the quickstart server. I built something similar for our drupal meetup (nwdug) but nothing as comprehensive as this. Are there any plans for purely server version (no gui)? This would probably cause some issues with IDE integration but might be useful for other developers. I'd be more than happy to provide a place to seed from as well.

Hello,

There is an issue being resolved with drush make, the new git migration, and Quickstart 0.9.

To fix this issue, open the drush make files ~/websites/default.make, d6.make, and d7.make. Replace this line: projects[] = drupal
with this line: projects[drupal][type] = core

If you attempt to do a "drush quickstart-create", it may fail during the "drush make". Drush Make is a separate project from quickstart and handles the downloading of code from drupal.org. http://drupal.org/project/drush_make

You can test this out with the following command:

Hi Guys

Just started my first steps with drupal, and it looks great.

I managed to create a website (on Quickstart and as well live site). but now its time to really start going deep on things.

First step is to create an Offline Test Site for maintenance and development purposes (which will be the live site copy).

I selected Quickstart 0.9 environment for that (with Drupal 7.x)

So, I need your help and good advise on how to copy all live site (content, data, scheme, db, etc...) into the developing environment

any guidelines will be great, since I'm going blind here....

Hello,
I'm trying to create new web site using quickstart and regardless to selected version (d6 or d7) I receive error unable to determine project type for drupal:
quickstart@quickstart-VirtualBox:~/websites$ drush qc --domain=testme.dev
[ok]
Creating dns config (add testme.dev to /etc/hosts) ... [ok]
... done. [ok]

HI,

Does it possible to write a hack code inside the database?.

We have a problem like after we upload the site in live its online for fews mins or hours only, after that showing as a error like there is a frequent truncate of system table which leads to "Fatal error: Call to undefined function user_access() in /home/ziya/public_html/includes/theme.inc on line1779".

Does there is any possibility to write a hack code to delete the database automatically?.

Please help me, am on trouble.

Hi mike! Hi people!

I just started developing a site with quickstart.

mysql dumped the DB, created a tar.gz and moved to my Hostgator server...

permission denied. Seems that the .htaccess doesn't had proper permissions, FIXED!

then, the code is working, the DB is working but none of the themes do. Not even the core themes work...

any idea?

I've replaced the .htaccess with one of my working sites, without results. When I inspect with firebug, it says there is no CSS.

should it be some difference between hostgator server's config and quickstart?

Quickstart 0.9! Hurray!

This new version includes:

Check it out here: http://drupal.org/project/quickstart
New videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/drupalquickstart
Or just download it: torrent (I just seeded it today, so give it some time to download).

I'm doing a presentation on Quickstart at the Southwest Drupal Summit on Thursday. Come check it out, or if they make a video, I'll like to it here.

Hurray for Drupal 7!

Just to tell you about my last blog post, on using Quickstart to reduce the setup time for development sites for patching modules:

http://jeh3.net/drupal/blog/contributing-easier-you-think

It's a grate job of the authors but I think as quickstart is DE it should be less beautifull and more productive. I think that GNOME is too 'pretty' for this appliance and xfce or fluxbox will do the job much better.

What's the password for the root account for quick start on ubuntu virtualbox? It's not "quickstart"

Is there any possibility to remove all GUI tools and leave only command-line tools?

I need quiskstart server environment to work on the project.

I work on Windows, because I can't work on Linux, because of my notebook 'features' (bugs with wifi in linux, can boot linux only with 2 GB RAM and not more). I'm using remote virtual server and Aptana Studio 3 to edit file via SFTP. It much more convenient then vi.

Hi,

I made some session proposals about Quickstart for Drupal Camp Austin, or DrupalCon Chicago.

- Austin Drupal Camp Nov 20-21 - vote if you want to see it.

- Also for DrupalCon Chicago Mar 7-10 - session proposal.

Hello,

I just finished a move to Austin TX and started to work with Drupal 7 in Quickstart.

QS 0.8 can install D7 using drush like this:
drush qc all --domain=powma.dev

If you change the ~/websites/default.make file like this:
api = 2
core = 7.x
projects[drupal][version] = 7.0-beta2
(add more modules here)

I think D7 includes an automated installer, so hopefully I can figure out how to remove the manual install step from the drush command.

Anyone have any other tips or suggestions?

Thanks,

Mike

Whew! It's been a hectic couple of weeks, but things are starting to settle down. I'm moving to Austin TX in a couple weeks and I'm excited to be starting a Drupal-based business.

Today Ubuntu released it's new version Ubuntu 10.10 which I'm also excited to try out, and got me thinking about the next version of Quickstart.

What would make Quickstart more useful to you?

I'm interested in Aegir, and want to fix the current install script.

Hello,

For your coding pleasure, we present: Quickstart 0.8 (bittorrent link).

Quickstart is a downloadable virtual machine, containing a pre-configured Ubuntu Linux PHP development environment. Develop and debug LAMP natively, on any computer, without hassle.

QS 0.8 includes updates and bug fixes to QS 0.7. If you're already using QS 0.7, below is a script that will make the bug fixes.

QS 0.8 was also used to make the HOWTO videos on the Quickstart YouTube channel: step debugging, performance profiling, simple email debugging, etc.

What's next for the project? Not quite sure, but I'd love some feedback on how it's being used, and what features or HOWTO videos would be useful.

I hope you find it useful, and thanks for whatever you do for open source,

Mike

Hello,

I just finished wrapping up Quickstart 0.7 (bittorrent).

This version has lots of new features: Email debugging, Performance profiling (with Webgrind), updates to IDEs, etc.

I've also started to put together some screencasts on how to use Quickstart. If you're interested, check out the YouTube channel. More to come...

Hello,

It's time for a new version of Quickstart, and I'm wondering how to improve it.

What are you using Quickstart for?
- What's helping?
- What could be improved?

If you're not using Quickstart, why? Where did it fall short?

Some ideas I had are:

• Hudson and Selenium integration. I just did this for a client and could integrate it into the image. Would this be useful?
• Improving the quickstart drush commands. Is anyone using this?
• Some screen casts on using the project? Short howto videos for this and that?

Now, with more seeding :-) Download here. Instructions here.

What's new:
- New Drush scripts for quickly configuring sites:
- - E.g. $ drush quickstart-create all --domain=example.dev
- - Configures DNS, apache, database, downloads code with drush make, and opens firefox to start installer.
- - To delete: $ drush quickstart-destroy all --domain=example.dev
- Fixed 9 bugs.
- Lots of tweaks and polish.
- Better documentation
- 600kbps upload pipe now to help with seeds. Prepped several seeders. (A generous offer to HTTP seed in the works)

(Sorry about the list format, drupal.org ate my ul's)

This is the best version yet. I'm starting a project next week on it, so hopefully, it will get better. If you have any experiences you want to share, or suggestions, drop me a not in the issue queue.

Happy Drupaling :-)