Legislator Database CSV: http://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/LegislatorDatabase.csv
- Running WordPress locally with MAMP in Windows and Mac
- Clone repository to
htdocs/wp-content/plugins/
- Go to http://localhost:8888/wp-admin/plugins.php and activate plugin
An alternative to M/W/XAMP is to use docker with or without docker-compose. This project contains a docker-compose.yml
file to help you begin developing quickly. If you need to install docker and docker-compose, you can use the following links:
The docker-compose
file included uses docker images for WordPress 5.3 and mysql 5.7. To start the project, run docker-compose up
. This will:
- fetch the required docker images if you don't currently have them
- create persistent database and server volumes
- mount the current working directory to the appropriate plugins directory within the
wordpress
container
After startup, visit localhost to view the wordpress installation. The admin area will be available at localhost/wp-admin after the initial configuration. To view the database directly using SequelPro (for example) configure a connection using:
- Host: 127.0.0.1
- Username:
wordpress
- Password:
wordpress
- Database:
wordpress
- Port:
3306
To stop the containers, you can use the terminal command docker stop $(docker ps -q)
or (on Mac) ctrl C
.
To remove the containers without destroying the persistent volumes use docker-compose down
. To also destroy the volumes, use docker-compose down -v
.