A stripped version of the HTML5 Boilerplate. No license, but feel free to send me real baked cookies for the 5 minutes of work I did. It was exhausting.
- jQuery: MIT/GPL license
- Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
- Normalize.css: Public Domain
This boilerplate assumes you're using a Mac and are willing to setup a virtual host. It's a tad bit complicated at first, but it becomes pretty easy after doing it one time.
I use XAMPP as my local server. Once you install XAMMP, open /Applications/XAMPP/etc/httpd.conf. Find the following lines in the file:
# Virtual hosts
#Include /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Uncomment (remove the #) the #Include /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf line.
Now open the /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file. Copy and paste this:
#
# Virtual Hosts
#
# If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *
#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
# match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block.
#
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
Now create a folder somewhere. For me, I keep my local sites in the /Users/MyUserName/Sites directory. Of course, you'll replace MyUserName with your username. For this, I'll create a folder named test. So my full directory location is /Users/MyUserName/Sites/test.
Once you do that open up the /Applications/XAMPP/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file again. Below the first VirtualHost section add another one using this:
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/Users/MyUserName/Sites/"
ServerName test.dev
</VirtualHost>
Now either mate /etc/hosts in terminal to open it in TextMate or find it in finder and open with your text editor of choice. Add this line to the file:
127.0.0.1 test.dev
You're all set now! Just start/restart XAMPP's Apache and put the boilerplate files in your /Users/MyUserName/Sites/test directory at test.dev.