![]() ![]() I use Ubuntu so I am going to assume you are also using Ubuntu. I already use it to manage my media server so I like to think that I am pretty good at it even though it’s much simpler than it sounds as I will presently demonstrate. For those of you, not familiar with Docker it’s like the proverbial Hindu elephant that allows you to do quickly deploy apps in isolated containers. A bit of overkill I know but I was really desperate. So I turned to DockerĪfter going through the same hoops with XAMPP and Bitnami I just gave up and turned to Docker. Some people suggested I use a tool called Ngrok to expose my local site to the internet but accessing the site using the supplied URL was painfully slow, I suspect my internet connection was to blame here. Local by flywheel with ngrok code#I do have a VPS (Virtual Private Server) lying around but having to constantly push code to it is annoying given my connection’s limited upload speed. Not only should I be able to call the API but the API must also be able to reach my local server. The plugin involves the use of an external API. That works well for my much smaller WordPress customisation projects that never seem to go beyond a single page of code but this time it was a more complex project and the limits of LocalWP became quickly apparent. Usually, I just use FlyWheel’s LocalWP and Atom. With that being said, I was rusty and even finding the right local development environment was a struggle. ![]() Recently though I found myself needing to put on that web-dev fedora for a project on one of my sites. And also I mostly develop for myself apart from the very rare and little WordPress PHP snippets I have shared with my even more technologically inept friends. ![]() I have to admit I am as far from winning the world’s best web-developer as it gets, but I give it my best. ![]()
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