1-step Vanilla dev sites

Linc

Cross-posting this in case anyone here is interested: http://icrontic.com/discussion/97541/instant-localhost-sites-for-php-developers

To expand on the Vanilla symlinks part, for anyone who finds themselves doing lots of dev on many different sites:

I have a folder /www/_master that has 4 subfolders: applications, locales, plugins, themes. Each of those subfolders is full of symlinks to those bits and bobs from my various Vanilla-related repos. This is the "master" collection of symlinks.

Example:

[lincoln@yoshi /www/_master/locales:]# ls -la
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  5 lincoln  wheel  170 May 28 09:19 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 lincoln  wheel  204 May 27 21:55 ..
lrwxr-xr-x  1 lincoln  wheel   29 May 28 09:19 vf_de_DE -> /git/addons/locales/vf_de_DE/
lrwxr-xr-x  1 lincoln  wheel   29 May 28 09:19 vf_es_ES -> /git/addons/locales/vf_es_ES/
lrwxr-xr-x  1 lincoln  wheel   29 May 28 09:19 vf_fr_FR -> /git/addons/locales/vf_fr_FR/

I have a folder /www/_copy that contains symlinks to the 4 subfolders above, Vanilla's .htaccess, bootstrap.php, index.php, library folder, and js folder. It has normal folders named cache, config, and uploads (in fact, make this whole path of folders: cache/Smarty/compile). It has symlinks in the config folder for config-defaults.php and constants.php.

[lincoln@yoshi /www/_copy:]# ls -la
total 72
drwxr-xr-x  14 lincoln  wheel  476 May 27 22:14 .
drwxr-xr-x  14 lincoln  wheel  476 May 29 11:34 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 lincoln  wheel   22 May 27 22:14 .htaccess -> /git/vanilla/.htaccess
lrwxr-xr-x   1 lincoln  wheel   26 May 27 21:56 applications -> /www/_master/applications/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 lincoln  wheel   26 May 25 23:35 bootstrap.php -> /git/vanilla/bootstrap.php
drwxr-xr-x   3 lincoln  wheel  102 May 25 23:37 cache
drwxr-xr-x   5 lincoln  wheel  170 May 27 21:40 conf
lrwxr-xr-x   1 lincoln  wheel   22 May 25 23:36 index.php -> /git/vanilla/index.php
lrwxr-xr-x   1 lincoln  wheel   15 May 25 23:36 js -> /git/vanilla/js
lrwxr-xr-x   1 lincoln  wheel   21 May 25 23:36 library -> /git/vanilla/library/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 lincoln  wheel   21 May 27 22:02 locales -> /www/_master/locales/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 lincoln  wheel   20 May 27 21:56 plugins -> /www/_master/plugins
lrwxr-xr-x   1 lincoln  wheel   19 May 27 21:56 themes -> /www/_master/themes
drwxr-xr-x   2 lincoln  wheel   68 May 25 23:36 uploads

NOTE: Symlinking index.php can cause path problems. So far, I haven't had any on nginx. That said... I haven't gotten very far using this yet so maybe I just haven't found it yet. If stuff is weird, manually copy index.php.

Now, anytime you copy /www/_copy to a new web root (like in the article I linked above) you'll have an always-updated copy of Vanilla in it forever.

Linc

This discussion brought to you by Lincoln reformatting his laptop and finally getting his shit together on his localhost

Linc

I've added 2 lines that will auto-setup a forum (if you supply the correct username & password etc in the last line):

 read -p "Name: " SITE

 #/etc/hosts
 sudo cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.original
 echo -e "127.0.0.1\t${SITE}.dev" | sudo tee -a  /etc/hosts

 # copy files
 sudo cp -R /www/_copy /www/${SITE}
 sudo chown -R lincoln /www/${SITE}

 # database
 sudo echo "create database ${SITE}" | mysql -u root

 # forum setup
 curl http://${SITE}.dev/index.php?p=/dashboard/setup > /dev/null
 curl -d "Database-dot-Host=localhost" -d "Database-dot-Name=${SITE}" -d "Database-dot-User=root" -d "Database-dot-Password=" -d "Garden-dot-Title=${SITE}" -d "Email=lincoln%40vanillaforums.com" -d "Name=admin" -d "Password=admin" -d "PasswordMatch=admin" http://${SITE}.dev/index.php?p=/dashboard/setup

UnderDog

Just a serious question and a bump also, of course : I see lots of symlinking, but I'm on Windows. Will these steps also work on Windows?

hgtonight

@UnderDog I use a program called Link Shell Extension. You can find out all about it here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

Linc

@Underdog You could try cygwin. Trying to port this script directly to Windows would be a bit of a challenge. Honestly, I can't imagine doing web dev on Windows now that I've seen the other side.

Linc

Gravy for the end:

 # go to your new site
 open -a Firefox.app ${SITE}.dev/entry

vrijvlinder

@Lincoln said:
I can't imagine doing web dev on Windows now that I've seen the other side.

I can't imagine doing anything creative or productive on Windows... once you go iOS.... well you know what ... I have come to a realization that people who like Windows are just masochists