Quickstart Drupal Development Environment

Why spend time learning WAMP/XAMP/MAMP/Cygwin/etc, when websites are deployed on LAMP? Why hack up your Mac/Windows computer?

Want a demo? Check out the Youtube Channel

What's included:

  • Ubuntu Linux, Apache, MySQL, APC, XDebug, IMAP, UploadProgress
  • Firefox (with developer plugins) and Chrome
  • Drush
  • Apache Solr
  • Netbeans and Eclipse
  • cvs, subversion, git, bazaar

See the Quickstart project page for download link and installation.
See the Quickstart handbook pages for user info and tips.

Note: THIS IS NOT A JOBS FORUM. Please post jobs elsewhere. Job postings will be reported as spam.

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DrupalCon Portland Ticket for Sale - Only $400.00 - Early Bird price

I have a ticket for DrupalCon Portland for sale at the early bird price of $400.00 USD. Circumstances changed and I'm not able to attend. Contact Katy@seascapewebdesign.com if you would like to buy my ticket.

ashwin tripathi's picture

Drupal/PHP Developer | worldwide technical services

Employment type: 
Contract
Telecommute: 
Not allowed

Require experienced Drupal developer to work alongside our online production
team, which includes designers, information architects, and content developers. Responsibilities for this position include custom programming and web
application development, troubleshooting of existing client sites, contributing ideas and efforts
toward internal projects and working as part of a team to find solutions to various problems (i.e.
development platforms, documentation etc.). The ideal candidate should enjoy working in a
creative, challenging, and fast-paced team environment.

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MichaelCole's picture

Seeking maintainer

"You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away"
-- Kenny Rogers

I have failed! Quickstart 3.0beta1 is my last planned Quickstart release.

If you're looking for something better or better maintained, check out these great alternatives:

Quickstart 1.0
- (I still use it :-)

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blacklabel_tom's picture

Wget failing on Drush dl

Hi,

I installed Quickstart on the latest version of Ubuntu and I immediately ran into problems when connecting to the internet.

I eventually played around with the network adapter settings in VirtualBox and after changing the adapter to bridged I could connect to the internet.

The problem I'm facing now is that for some reason wget is failing on a DNS lookup when I run drush dl.

I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to Ubuntu and networking in general. I have attached a file of the commands I'm running and the output I see hopefully someone can see where I'm going wrong.

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COMSOInc's picture

Drupal Developer (Reston, VA) | COMSO, Inc.

Employment type: 
Full time
Telecommute: 
Allowed

Location: Reston, VA

Position Details:

Overview
The Drupal Developer will be responsible for all Drupal development on a high profile inter-agency geospatial open data platform. This will include building several site specific modules, as well as integrating existing modules, and connecting to several external databases and data.gov. The ideal candidate will also have strong experience with usability and design.

Primary Responsibilities
• Assist the Technical Lead in gathering Customer Requirements for a Drupal based platform

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adam_healy's picture

Can't install modules

I am very new to drupal, and have decided to use quickstart to avoid fatal errors on my live site. When installing a new module, the update module asks for server connection details. All the standard usernames and passwords don't work. I have used root, example_dev, root@localhost as the different usernames and quickstart as the password. What could be wrong?

Thanks
Adam

MichaelCole's picture

What's up Drupal Quickstart?!

Hey everybody,

If you're following along and interested in Quickstart 3.0, we just posted an update here in our Google Group.
- https://groups.google.com/d/topic/drupal-quickstart/UPjuIXdBGNQ/discussion

Happy Holidays everybody!

Mike

sja45uk's picture

Demonstration Websites for QS30

My thoughts are that the new Quickstart 3.0 should eventually:

1) support the semi-automatic download of a number of demonstration websites to help learn Drupal (synergy with Drupal Ladder?);
2) provide a better mechanism than the existing Modules installation page for locating a desired module tar.gz link;
3) provide some assistance with upgrading the Drupal core by providing guidance on database backup and migrate;
4) support the concept of optional tool sets to keep the initial download smaller and allow staged learning of tools.

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COMSOInc's picture

Drupal Developer (Reston, VA) - 5+ years of experience | COMSO, Inc.

Employment type: 
Full time
Telecommute: 
Allowed

Overview
Join COMSO’s dedicated team in developing a state-of-the-art Geospatial Platform from the ground up (FLCD) to support the GIS data and information needs of multiple federal agencies.

As the Drupal Developer, you will be responsible for all Drupal development work on the Geospatial Platform.

Primary Responsibilities
• Assist the Technical Lead in gathering Customer Requirements for a Drupal based platform
• Develop documentation and wire diagrams for the platform
• Design, build, and deploy a comprehensive Drupal site

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External Database connection Display results in Forms table as sortable pagination

<?php
/**
* @file
* This module is for core db search and send selected items via email.
*
* In this module, a user (registered) can search the url list and result will be displayed as list.
* The submitted data will be stored in custom table email_sents with user data , and emails will be sent.
*/

/**
* Menu for Endpoint
*
* Implementation of hook_menu().
*/
function my_module_menu() {

$items['my-module'] = array(
  'title' => t('My Module'),
  'description' => t('Search form'),
  'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
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MichaelCole's picture

QS 3.0 Alpha1 soon

Hey Folks,

It's in the works! But it's not ready in October.

We're working fulltime to pay the bills, and it's been difficult to find time to put into Quickstart.

Travis and Roma have been hugely helpful in moving the project forward. We wouldn't be anywhere close to done if it wasn't for their help.

The switch to Puppet, while critical to success, has been a big learning curve for me, and we haven't found anyone with the time to help.

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MichaelCole's picture

Help! Documentation Tzar

Howdy!

Quickstart 1.0 had many cool features, and not so great documentation.

Quickstart 3.0 plans more features, and this time we want awesome documentation.

Wanna help? We put together a straw-man Documentation Plan. We're looking for a Documentation Tsar to make Quickstart's documentation something really special.

If you like to organize information and can write for the web, here is a great way to contribute to Drupal and Quickstart :-)

Thanks!

Mike

P.S. We've started developing the Quickstart project site at http://drupalquickstart.org :-)

jamesthequack's picture

Silly Newbie Installation Mistakes and Ultimate Success with QuickStart

I am just 7 weeks into an intensive Drupal course (about 60 hours a week!); so my errors setting up QS are probably not the norm; though they may save others from repeating them.

The first step is to upgrade if you have less than 4GB of RAM. The virtual environment needs 1024MB (@1GB).

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MichaelCole's picture

Scrums, Moved to Github, Dev list on Google Groups

Hi, a quick update!

The last couple weeks we've had some successful scrums on Google Hangout. Open source is definitely a long-distance run, so they're helpful in keeping flow.

Also, we've moved to github, and started dev discussion on google groups.

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MichaelCole's picture

Quickstart 3.0 in October 2012

Recently I've been working more with Drupal, and noticed Quickstart 1.0's post-installation fizzle: "470 days since your last update"!

I've been focused on billable time recently, but with Ubuntu 11.04 support ending 12.10, it's time to update my tools :-)

What's next for QS 3.0?

What I really wanted from QS 1.0, more than anything, was a debugger. A profiler was just icing on the cake.

Now, I really want a sensible dev/test/prod server ecosystem.

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Full time | TechZarInfo

Telecommute: 
Allowed

Hello,

Techzarinfo, is a spammer and doesn't read the posting guidelines for groups.

info@techzar-web-developers.com
Skype: techzarinfo

Thanks,
Sales team
www.techzar-web-developers.com

techzarinfo's picture

Full time | TechZarInfo

Telecommute: 
Allowed

Hello,

Techzarinfo, is a spammer and doesn't read the posting guidelines for groups.

info@techzar-web-developers.com
Skype: techzarinfo

Thanks,
Sales team
www.techzar-web-developers.com

troublemaker's picture

Enabling additional PHP extensions

Hi

Firstly let me say how impressed I am with Quickstart. I'm new to both Drupal and Linux so without Quickstart I'd probably be still pulling my hair out trying to get a dev environment configured. Thanks. Great work!

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Share your own machine specs (and results)

Share your machine specifications and results so we can make or suggest imrovements. Please keep your listing succinct.

Please divide this page based on Operating System (OS) architecture. Are you running a 32bit (i386) or 64bit (amd64)?

My specs:
Machine: MacBook Pro
Processor: 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 4 GB 1067 DDR3
OS: Mac OS X 10.6.7
->Quickstart 1.0 - i386

Results:
Downloaded the amd64 yesterday, presuming it would work on my Intel Mac, sadly no such luck. Downloaded the i386 version and it installed beautifully and runs smooth at first sight.


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micnap's picture

Install Acquia profile instead of standard Drupal with quickstart-create?

Anyone have any tips on how to go about telling quickstart-create to download and install Acquia's Drupal instead of standard Drupal? I can install distributions with quickstart-create but Acquia's Drupal is a profile, not a distribution.

Thanks,
Mickey

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