Introduction Remarks This Cookbook shows, how you can install XAMPP on an Windows-PC to use it for Kirby as a development system. Hint: Follow it step by step! Important Safety Notice: XAMPP should not be used as a web server, that can be accessed from the internet! The safe operation of the web …

a nice tutorial should be pretty good for starters. i think you forgot one essential for developing websites / application or what so ever: version control system! i personaly use git ( http://git-scm.com ) for everything. you could clone kirby in your local kirby installation and can change (update…

In my solution I want to work without the need of any external memory. Git etc. requires usefully Internet access or access to a private local area network. My solution does not require such physical requirements. [image] anon77445132: Backup: For the next version of your design copy the dire…

[image] anon77445132: Git etc. requires usefully Internet access or access to a private local area network Git does not require internet access at all! You can always instantiate the repository after having downloaded all the files. It comes with so many advantages though: Simply reverting ch…

@FabianSperrle : I use my XAMPP as a “one man show”! And I want to use and develop my website at nearly every PC, irrespective of I have admin rights or not, which I would possibly need to control a virtual machine.

You don’t need admin rights to run a virtual machine. You do need e.g. VirtualBox or VMWare installed though, so I guess if you’re really switching machines that often that’s not an option. I wouldn’t give up on git though :slight_smile:

you could use git also as portable version: GitHub - sheabunge/GitPortable: Portable version of Git for Windows and carry it with you. the only thing you would administrator-privilages is if you put it in your system-path. as far as i remeber you have a system path and a user path (in the enviromen…

And on top of all the other advantages of version control over making copies mentioned above: even cheap hosting providers often have Git installed these days, making it easy to deploy with git. If you have ever experienced how fast that is, you don’t want to go back to copying files over ftp anymo…

Small remark on step 9.4 There’s no sence to rename panel directory for security reasons and then point it in robots.txt

@anon77445132 what is the best way to create a Apache Virtual Host on Windows?

@thesmithy: If you follow my steps in the first post on this webpage, you don’t need this configuration, because this configuration of a Virtual Host is very annoying. But to answer your question: You find the answer for the configuration of the apache at Apache Virtual Host documentation . And y…

HowTo: Start Kirby development on a PC

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