Well my partner and I have multiple sites in motion and we can just clone a 
vagrant box to get a whole bunch of core functionality we’ve already built... 
When I’m working by myself I just use mamp 





bruce linde
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(please excuse brevity... sent from my iPhone)




> On Jul 20, 2018, at 8:42 PM, Greg Raven <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> You use Vagrant to set up a development environment (in VirtualBox, for 
> example). There used to be a program called Hobo that made this easier, but 
> it's always seemed non-trivial to me. The benefit is that once you have a 
> Vagrant process (or whatever they are called) set up, you can run it at any 
> time to set up a new instance for other projects, or simply to scrap and 
> reorder the one you're currently using. If you are working with a team, you 
> can also share Vagrant processes so that everyone is using the same 
> development environment.
> 
> For me, the game isn't worth the candle. I could have an entire website set 
> up and running by the time I figured out how to get Vagrant working. Your 
> mileage may vary.
> 
>> On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 8:21:41 PM UTC-7, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 21, 2018, at 0:06, bruce linde <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> mamp, git, vagrant.
>>> 
>>> i’ve been using mamp forever but my partner pushed me to try vagrant... i’m 
>>> now running both.
>> 
>> I'm checking Vagrant and I'm not sure how I could use that for Web/PHP 
>> development. Could you develop on that ?
>> 
>> Jean-Christophe 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 20, 2018, at 6:11 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> On Jul 20, 2018, at 22:00, Greg Raven <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> The best way I have found to do this is to have your PHP files in a 
>>>>> BBEdit project,
>>>> 
>>>> I've created a project for my files (I find projects hard to navigate, 
>>>> namely no apparent way to move around without having to use the mouse, but 
>>>> maybe I'm missing something). Basically a bunch of WP files.
>>>> 
>>>>> and then set the project settings to open a local website.
>>>> 
>>>> Can you be more specific ?
>>>> 
>>>>> To have a local website, you can use any of a number of methods, 
>>>>> including MAMP, HostBuddy, VirtualHostX, VirtualBox, etc.,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm using MAMP. I have the test site and the "production" site side by 
>>>> side, both managed under git and I'll be setting up sync to make sure I 
>>>> have everything under control. Then I need to find a way to sync to the 
>>>> ftp server (I don't have a clear idea how to do that but I'll get there 
>>>> eventually...)
>>>> 
>>>> Jean-Christophe 
>>>> 
>>>>> or you can set up your local Apache server to serve your site locally 
>>>>> with PHP. I just use the built-in Apache with modifications to the 
>>>>> httpd.conf, hosts, and vhosts files. There are a couple of fiddly bits 
>>>>> involved when doing it this way, but you don't have to download and 
>>>>> maintain anything and it works just fine.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 9:13:42 PM UTC-7, Jean-Christophe Helary 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jul 20, 2018, at 10:04, Scott in Pollock <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You'll need a local server running PHP. Google 'MAMP'.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sorry if that was not clear. I do have everything set up already.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I just need BBedit to "preview" my files not by calling file://... but 
>>>>>> by calling http/localhost/...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What's happening now is that I edit/save PHP on BBedit and the switch to 
>>>>>> Safari and reload. That's not practical. Is there a way to do call that 
>>>>>> preview from BBedit directly ?
>> 
>> 
>> Jean-Christophe Helary
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune
>> 
>> 
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