Netgen’s Local Development Setup

Overview

This is a guide on setting up modern web development environment with PHP on your local Mac or Linux machine, without using any kind of virtualization. Web server configurations for Symfony and eZ Platform / Ibexa CMS are provided out of the box, but the setup is not limited to them, and new configurations for other PHP applications can be easily added.

For all chapters in this documentation, replace Brale Rodijak with your own name, brale user with you own username on your workstation and if on Linux, staff group with your own group name (usually the same as the username).

Follow the steps in this order:

1. Git
2. dnsmasq
3. MySQL
4. PHP
5. Composer
6. SSL
7. NGINX
8. cURL
9. Redis
10. Solr
11. RabbitMQ
12. MailHog
13. Varnish
14. Node.js
15. Tika
16. Memcached
17. XDebug
18. Exposing websites

MAC OS

• MacOS prerequisites
• Set up Git version control system
• Set up DNS forwarding with dnsmasq
• Set up MySQL database server
• Set up PHP
• Set up composer
• Set up SSL certificates with OpenSSL
• Set up NGINX web server
• Set up cURL
• Set up Redis in-memory data store
• Set up Apache Solr
• Set up RabbitMQ message-broker
• Set up MailHog development SMTP server
• Set up Varnish reverse HTTP proxy
• Set up Node.js version management
• Set up Apache Tika server (optional)
• Set up Memcached distributed memory object caching system
• Set up XDebug

UBUNTU

• Set up Git version control system
• Set up DNS forwarding with dnsmasq
• Set up MySQL database server
• Set up PHP
• Set up composer
• Set up SSL certificates with OpenSSL
• Set up NGINX web server
• Set up Redis in-memory data store
• Set up Apache Solr
• Set up RabbitMQ message-broker
• Set up MailHog development SMTP server
• Set up Varnish reverse HTTP proxy
• Set up Node.js version management
• Set up Apache Tika server (optional)
• Set up Memcached distributed memory object caching system
• Set up XDebug