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Oscar165's avatar

Starting out

How would one go about creating a development environment? I have watched some of the Forge video's, and he talks about your cold be uploaded from a git repository.

What I am asking is I want a development code, Production code. How does one set up the same experience as digital ocean. Does one develop code locally and have a test website that can only be seen by the developer.

I am new to Laravel, PHP development and cannot seem to find info on setting up a working environment.

Any guidelines would be appreciated.

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TimeSocks's avatar

I second @zachleigh's suggestion. I followed that series to set up a Vagrant/Homestead VM and it is pretty straightforward.

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