Local Development Environments for Web Design

How to install and configure a local dev environment using LAMP stacks.

What you'll learn:

• Understand what a Local Development Environment is.
• Install and configure MAMP, XAMPP or WAMP to run php & mySQL applications
• Install Joomla! or WordPress CMS (Content Management Systems)

If you have been building websites in HTML and are ready to move forward into using php/MySQL based applications, this course will teach you what a Local Development Environment is and how to install the top CMS software to start development of your website when you're ready.

We will go through the install and setup of MAMP (Mac), XAMPP (Mac) and WAMP (Windows). Once we have the local environment setup and configured, I will show you how to install both Joomla! and WordPress in each system.