Dev server locally

[kuba2]

Hi there

I would like to ask how to create a dev server locally? I have a PW Website to test, because it runs with PHP 5.6. and I have to switch to PHP 7. I have the blog module installed and don't know if it will run smoothly with the php change.

 

Is that with xampp? 

 

Last time i tried to open a website with xampp, it didn't work because of the php href ( href="<?php echo $config->urls->templates?>...).

How do I get that to work?

 

Thanks a lot

Jakob

[Ivan Gretsky]

Good day, @kuba2!

I am building ProcessWire site locally with xampp. I have a lot of code just like yours and it works fine. There is probably something else, that you did not spot yet. Please post exact error you get and anything else you think could be useful to resolve the issue.

[dragan]

Switching PHP versions is easier with Laragon; give it a try (though PW runs on anything I've used previously: XAMPP / WAMP etc.)

1 hour ago, kuba2 said:

Last time i tried to open a website with xampp, it didn't work because of the php href ( href="<?php echo $config->urls->templates?>...).

That's strange.

[clsource]

Also you can use this docker file I created for easy PW dev env ?

 

https://github.com/joyofpw/docker