Windows

There are test scenarios that requires a development site hosted in local web server accessible via live external domain. In this article, will show how to make a development site hosted in local virtualbox web server (Windows as host OS and CentOS 7 as guest OS). Note: make sure you have full administrator access to your router and the router's WAN IP is a public IP address.

Steps:

1. Open and configure your Vagrantfile. Add the following lines:

First time I setup and test Drush on my local machine using WinNMP on Windows executing a cache clear on a local Drupal site under Git BASH or cygwin:

  
drush @webfoobar cache-rebuild
  

... I get this error:

  
No Drupal site found, only 'drush' cache was cleared
  

I excuted the following drush command to investigate the cause of the error:

  
drush @webfoobar -d st
  

... got the following output message:

The following are the steps on how to mount SD card to "C:\Program Files" in Windows 10 without using softlink:

1. Create "C:\sdcard" folder.

2. Go to "Administrative Tools" > "Computer Management" > "Disk Management".

3. Right click on SD card drive, select "Change Drive Letters and Paths…", click "Remove".

4. Right click on SD card drive, select "Change Drive Letters and Paths…", click "Add..", type "C:\sdcard" and click "OK".

In Windows 10, when we right click an image file in "File Explorer" there is no like we got used to in Windows 7. This article will show how to restore it in our Windows 10's context menu. Create a text file and have the following codes as its content:

Drush give us text commands to accomplish task that significantly save us amount of time rather than using the web interface clicking around with a mouse. We will look at installing latest version of Drush on Windows using composer. The following instructions are done in all in one server XAMPP environment.