Quick & dirty local env for development on macOS

local-environment.md

Simple local dev env

Prerequisites

brew install --without-apache --with-fpm --with-mysql php71

brew install nginx

nginx sample configuration

server {
  listen 8080;
  server_name ~^(?<proj>[^.]+).devsites.local;
  root /Users/{username}/www/$proj;
  index index.html index.php;

  location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files      $uri /index.html index.php;
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
  }
}

/etc/hosts

Assuming {projectName} as the folder name.

127.0.0.1 {projectName}.devsites.local

Further reading:

• https://serverfault.com/questions/457196/dynamic-nginx-domain-root-path-based-on-hostname
• https://gist.github.com/dtomasi/ab76d14338db82ec24a1fc137caff75b