ServBay Replacing MAMP
A while back. One of our members (Erwin) posted a link to ServBay, a possible alternative to MAMP for local development. I decided to give it a try.
Installation was uneventful, i.e. just as one would expect.
First step is to set up your site to use this tool.
- Name: your site (any name you want)
- Domain: mysite.ca (no https in front)
- Web Protocol: choose HTTPS
- SSL Request Method: ServBay CA
- Website Type: PHP!
- CORS (leave alone- off)
- Root Directory: /Users/macBook/Desktop/mysite.ca (the icon lets you choose the folder where your site files live)
Now in the left panel, there are 5 icons.
Click on the circled arrow ⎊ to activate your site, then click on the second row compass icon 🧭 to reveal your webpage. Voila! Now when you edit your site in RW or (soon Stacks6) save to your LOCAL drive, then refresh your local site.
Database Inegration
Next step is to integrate with a database such as Sitelok. On the far left panel, I used MySQL and MySQL 8.4 setup. No changes required. User is root and Password is ServBay.dev These are the defaults.
In your site editor (RW), I duplicated my "member list" page that required a link to Sitelok. Using Feeds/MySQL:
Hostname: 127.0.0.1 Port: 3306 DB Name: mydatabase Username: root Password: ServBase You will also need to copy your "real" database to a Local version, so on the ServBay MySQL page, click on the top right icon (blue phpMyAdmin logo to set up your local db. Again, user and pass are the same (root, ServBay.dev) Using phpMyAdmin, import your data (I used csv to copy/paste from "real" db). That's it. You should be good to go.
Caution: Especially with two iterations of a database, you need to be careful which one is the true verlsion. This facility is super for working out your site features locally including "sample" data connection, but does not replace actual live databsse updates.
