Laravel Valet with ProcessWire

[LostKobrakai]

I've just added a pull request for a ProcessWire driver to laravel valet: https://github.com/laravel/valet/pull/55/files

For anyone wanting to have a quick local dev environment (on a mac) you should certainly take a look.

https://laravel.com/docs/master/valet

[Sergio]

Cool! I was thinking about it yesterday. 

Thanks!

[LostKobrakai]

Just to add that here. The driver can be installed manually until and if the pr does get merged into valet. Just put the ProcessWireValetDriver.php of the pr into the ~/.valet/Drivers folder and start your ProcessWire project. 

[LostKobrakai]

Here's a nice (laravel centric) overview about what valet is and how to get it running: https://laracasts.com/lessons/laravel-valet-is-the-bomb

[fuzendesign]

Thanks man! Exactly what I needed.

[clsource]

This is a really good tool.

Thanks for creating a PW driver

[Rudy]

If for some reason, @LostKobrakai driver doesn't work for you, try this version

https://github.com/lesaff/ProcessWireValetDriver

 

[Rudy]

I can safely confirm that PW on Valet is faster than PW on MAMP/MAMP Pro.

[pwired]

For Windows users there is the Laragon version: https://laragon.org/download.html

 

[bernhard]

thank you @pwired

do you have processwire running on laragon? what are the steps necessary to do?

thank you

[LostKobrakai]

@Rudy I did take a look at your take at it and the subfolder option didn't seem to work. 

I've now enhanced it to be configurable to different optional subfolders to look for a ProcessWire installation. I've also taken the trailingSlash part out, because ProcessWire does not enforce trailing slashes, but it can do it on it's own if you want it to.

https://gist.github.com/LostKobrakai/5328d6f64e9dc06a8776d0231c6628c6

[Rudy]

@LostKobrakai This is great! I just tested it and it works nicely.

I love PW community. Keep it up folks!

[bernhard]

to make file uploads work i had to make those adjustments on my laragon + win10:

// php.ini (right click on laragon tray > php > php.ini
date.timezone = Europe/Vienna // uncomment and set
always_populate_raw_post_data = -1 // uncomment

don't forget to reload laragon

awesome tool so far, thanks for sharing @LostKobrakai and @pwired

 

[Rudy]

@LostKobrakai, when you have a chance, could you test this on your Valet/PW install. 

do a 

var_dump(parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH));

and visit a page that has dash in the segment name.

on my PW install:

Original URL: http://my.dev/this-and-that/

The var_dump output is "-that"

I ran the same test on my MAMP Pro and Ubuntu server and both comes out as "this-and-that"

Not sure if it's isolated to my Valet or not.

Thanks

Rudy

[owzim]

Never heard of valet, looks great. Have to try it out later. How can PW run in valet, when there's no apache?

[Rudy]

Valet runs on Caddy HTTP server. It's pretty fast. By default, it installs Caddy and PHP 7. You will need to install MariaDb or MySQL and use PW Driver to run PW on it. 

 

[LostKobrakai]

The valet driver basically replaces what the .htaccess does.

[pwired]

Hi,

I am using Laragon (laravel for mac) on Windows but can not solve the mod_rewrite error when installing Processwire 2.7

 

 

I searched with Google but could only find some tips about php.ini and nginx.conf but didnt make the mod_rewrite error go away.

I tried to look inside the list with php extensions to see if it has to be enabled there like with wamp but it seems not to be there in the list.

What needs to be done here ?

 

 

 

 

[LostKobrakai]

mod_rewrite is a part of apache, so there's nothing to detect when this is using nginx. But you can still complete the installation with that error. Just make sure rewrites are correctly set up in nginx as well.

[pwired]

Thanks for your reply LostKobraKai. Ok I clicked on Continue and could finish the installation. So I only have to setup rewrites when I need them. I will be good then for the time being. How to create nginx rewrite rules must be easy to find with Google. I assume I have to put them in nginx.conf

 

 

 

 

[LostKobrakai]

There is a nginx.conf somewhere here in the forums. Just search for it on google. 

[Michael Murphy]

Just wanted to say thanks for creating the Valet driver - it works well with the latest master and dev branches of PW. It is noticeably faster than MAMP, not to mention much easier to setup - just create a new folder and off you go. Also the ease of setting up SSL for local testing is very unique. I've not used it extensively but this feels like the best local development setup I have tried so far (for performance and ease of setup). Interested to hear if anyone has had any issues using Valet for PW development.

I am also very impressed by homebrew - it has come a long way since my earlier tests and seems to be very solid since turning 1.0 with lots of additional help to make sure you don't mess anything up.

[Sergio]

On 10/15/2016 at 8:29 AM, LostKobrakai said:

@Rudy I did take a look at your take at it and the subfolder option didn't seem to work. 

I've now enhanced it to be configurable to different optional subfolders to look for a ProcessWire installation. I've also taken the trailingSlash part out, because ProcessWire does not enforce trailing slashes, but it can do it on it's own if you want it to.

https://gist.github.com/LostKobrakai/5328d6f64e9dc06a8776d0231c6628c6

I confirm that this version is working on Windows 10, using https://github.com/cretueusebiu/valet-windows

If yours doesn't work, maybe enabling developer mode on Windows is required.

Thanks @LostKobrakai !

[daniels]

@LostKobrakai thank you so much for your great driver, I use and love it for quite a while now.

I just experienced something weird, and I'm not sure if it has to do something with valet and your driver:

I'm in the need of accessing a non-processwire php file in the processwire root (e.g. domain.test/myfile.php).

On my staging & live server, this works great – on my local dev environment (including valet and your driver), I land on the 404 processwire page.

I tried a few things:

On Staging (with valet):
domain.test/myimage.png -> ✔️
domain.test/custom/myimage.png -> ✔️
domain.test/myfile.php -> ❌
domain.test/custom/myfile.php -> ❌

On Live Server (apache):
domain.com/myimage.png -> ✔️
domain.com/custom/myimage.png -> ✔️
domain.com/myfile.php -> ✔️
domain.com/custom/myfile.php -> ✔️

Is it possible that it has something to do with valet and the driver? Or could there be other reasons?

Best,
Daniel

[dragan]

You probably have to change something in your .htaccess file (mod_rewrite). A workaround would be to simply use an empty new template and include() your custom PHP file, then use the PW-generated URL / page-slug to access it.