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. HAProxy

9. cURL

10. Redis

11. Solr

12. RabbitMQ

13. Mailpit

14. Varnish

15. Node.js

16. Tika

17. Memcached

18. XDebug

19. 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 HAProxy reverse proxy and load balancer

• Set up cURL

• Set up Redis in-memory data store

• Set up Apache Solr (optional)

• Set up RabbitMQ message-broker

• Set up Mailpit development SMTP server

• Set up Varnish reverse HTTP proxy (optional)

• Set up Node.js version management

• Set up Apache Tika server (optional)

• Set up Memcached distributed memory object caching system

• Set up XDebug (optional)

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 HAProxy reverse proxy and load balancer

• Set up Redis in-memory data store

• Set up Apache Solr

• Set up RabbitMQ message-broker

• Set up Mailpit 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