RobbieTheGeek.Com

Hi all my name is Robbie, and I am known online as RobbieTheGeek, have many spots I can bee found online and that is my handle. So here is the reason for a new blog, I decided I would give WordPress a try and to use and abuse it.

So I have been learning all I can learn about the web design/development world, and I have a healthy appetite for technology, and I was totally intrigued by Drupal. So I diligently looked up a howTo online for Ubuntu and web server stuffs and came across The Perfect Setup - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server (Dapper Drake) and I was in my glory. I thought wow I have it all right here.

A very useful way to setup a web development environment is an all-in-one solution that includes a web server, a database, server-side scripting support. I am running MacOSX and needed a solution like this and I have come across a great project called MAMP.I haven’t previously mentioned my environment for web design on my laptop but I have been happily using this all-in-one testing solution for all my web development.

Welcome back I am now going to talk about the way that MAMP handles serving up files through Apache2. By default you install MAMP into the Applications directory on Mac OSX in a folder and the default path to the folder that is being served by Apache is /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/ .

Ok the next step is to import the tables and all the guts of Drupal into your newly created database, for MySql 4.1 or higher (MAMP has MySQL5) you will need to import a file called database.4.1.mysql located in the /drupal-4.7.X/database as shown in the picture to the left. It is that simple and you are almost there with your very our sandbox for development. You will have to edit a file in the /{drupal}/sites/default/settings.php and change one line.

$db_url = ‘mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename’;