This is interesting. Bitnami has a full Apache/PHP/Mysql/MODX stack available, with MODX 2.3.1 that you can just download and install, like MAMP or any of the Windows/Linux stacks, with MODX built-in. They also have a Cloud service very much like MODX Cloud, only it's on Amazon AWS and is quite a bit more expensive than MODX Cloud. They do have a free demo available.
https://bitnami.com/stack/modx
http://wiki.bitnami.com/Applications/Bitnami_MODX
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Whee! This installs on external media! I have MODX-on-a-stick! What a give-away for MODX meetups.
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That's very cool.
Can you have more than one MODX site on it?
Do you see it as a viable replacement for XAMPP/MAMP/LAMP?
I wonder if you can execute and debug code in it via PhpStorm.
Yes, it's just like MAMP. The MODX installation is at <wherever-you-installed-it>/apps/modx/, with a URL of http://localhost:8080/modx/
I haven't worked with it a lot yet, so things like .htaccess and so forth I'm not sure about.
Hm. It is already using Friendly URLs, so the .htaccess must be elsewhere.
Ah, I see. The core is above the web root, which is /apps/modx/htdocs. Nice.
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Quote from: sottwell at Oct 12, 2014, 06:44 AM
Ah, I see. The core is above the web root, which is /apps/modx/htdocs. Nice.</wherever-you-installed-it>
Yes and no. It sounds like that would interfere with PhpStorm's ability to make a project out of a directory and do site-wide searches (including regex searches).
Well, move it and edit the config files then. It's just an installation like any other installation.
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Simple enough, I guess, though don't they also provide upgrades through Bitnami? Having the core in the "wrong" place might break them.
I don't know, I didn't look into the upgrade issue. I would presume, though, that upgrades would only apply to their hosting plans, and this stack installation package would stand alone.