Quickstart Drupal Development Environment

This group should probably have more organizers. See documentation on this recommendation.

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.

The Future of Drupal - Webinar

Posted by dunx on June 22, 2020 at 2:19pm

Start:

2020-06-25 16:00 - 17:00 Europe/London

Organizers:

Drupal Association

Event type:

Training (free or commercial)

https://www.cyber-duck.co.uk/insights/resources/the-future-of-drupal-web...

Right now, more than 700,000 websites are still using Drupal 7. Yet, from November 2021, Drupal 7 and 8 will no longer get updates, bug fixes or security patches. Released in June 2020, Drupal 9 will become the standard platform all organisations must use - but how can you get there?

Join experts from Acquia, Cyber-Duck, SureCloud and The Drupal Association as we talk about the future of Drupal. Discover how, when and why your business should upgrade to Drupal 9. Our webinar will discuss:

Drupalpro ported to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64bit)

Posted by jcmartinez on June 5, 2015 at 5:40am

I have ported DrupalPro to Ubuntu 14.04 (64bit). It has the quickstart Drush add-on working with the latest Apache 2.4 so you can create sites very easily.

Please feel free to use it from https://github.com/jcmartinez/drupalpro14

I couldn't work without this environment and my old 12.04 version was crashing so I decided to finally spend the time and make it work.

Thanks to Michael Cole and Mike Stewart for the previous work.

Lazy Dubuntu

Posted by darol100 on November 20, 2014 at 4:57am

For those Ubuntu user, I have been working on a shell scrip that is going to set up your Drupal development environment.

Check it out - http://lazydubuntu.com/ This project still on development

Today I wrote an article about this project - http://darrylnorris.com/blog/lazy-dubuntu-first-week-recap

Quickstart 2.0 alpha

Posted by cmeraz on October 23, 2013 at 2:46am

Hello there, i recently downloaded and install on my virtualbox the Quickstart 2.0 alpha, but it installed 3 virtual disc devices SATA 1, 2 and 3. the first one is 6.00GB, 2d 500.00 MB and the 3rd 20.00GB, why is that? The version 1.0 has just 1 device 16.00 GB.

Big Data Drupal: Cloudera Hadoop, MapReduce, Nutch, Solr, Aegir BOA, Drupal 7 ApacheSolr Views

Posted by niccolox on October 4, 2013 at 5:37pm

I am giving a talk at Badcamp on Big Data Drupal: Cloudera Hadoop, MapReduce, Nutch, Solr, Aegir BOA, Drupal 7 ApacheSolr Views

http://2013.badcamp.net/sessions/big-data-drupal-cloudera-hadoop-mapredu...

I am trying to gather some other experts i.e. Cloudera / Hadoop / MapReduce + HyperDrupal + Twig etc to come and handle the bigger and deeper questions

https://drupal.org/node/2104503
https://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/forum/#!topic/cdh-user/Uwuj1q7bWBY

Hardware install of Quickstart

Posted by wastrilith2k on August 26, 2013 at 9:27pm

Has anyone had any luck getting Quickstart to install on a physical machine? I'd like to be able to use all the scripts/tools that are provided, on my physical machine, but keep encountering errors.

James

Ubuntu Edge Indiegogo Campaign

Posted by technocrat on July 26, 2013 at 5:33pm

Hey Everyone,

Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, have started an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign for a highly innovative, leading edge technology phone called the Ubuntu Edge. Here's the link.

http://igg.me/at/ubuntuedge/x/3562668

It'll be a converged device that will act as a PC with Ubuntu OS when connected to a monitor/keyboard. It'll cost $830 dollars but there are still lower priced perks still available.

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

Posted by katy5289 on May 20, 2013 at 8:42pm

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.

Seeking maintainer

Posted by MichaelCole on February 10, 2013 at 4:41pm

"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 :-)

Wget failing on Drush dl

Posted by blacklabel_tom on January 5, 2013 at 10:34pm

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.

Can't install modules

Posted by adamhealyZA on December 30, 2012 at 3:40pm

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

What's up Drupal Quickstart?!

Posted by MichaelCole on December 14, 2012 at 10:08pm

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

Demonstration Websites for QS30

Posted by sja45uk on December 2, 2012 at 1:59am

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.

External Database connection Display results in Forms table as sortable pagination

Posted by shad_khan on November 9, 2012 at 5:48pm
Last updated by shad_khan on Fri, 2012-11-09 17:48

<?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',

QS 3.0 Alpha1 soon

Posted by MichaelCole on November 7, 2012 at 9:48pm

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.

Help! Documentation Tzar

Posted by MichaelCole on October 14, 2012 at 11:44pm

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 :-)

Silly Newbie Installation Mistakes and Ultimate Success with QuickStart

Posted by SirBlogaLot on October 8, 2012 at 3:46pm

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).

Scrums, Moved to Github, Dev list on Google Groups

Posted by MichaelCole on September 26, 2012 at 8:54pm

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.

Quickstart 3.0 in October 2012

Posted by MichaelCole on September 17, 2012 at 7:10pm

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.

Enabling additional PHP extensions

Posted by rattusrattus on May 31, 2012 at 2:06pm

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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