Setting up a local development server

1. Installing Git

The first thing you are going to need is GIT, now if you already have GIT installed, you may go on to the next step. Now, you will want to go to here to start downloading the version 1.8.3 of GIT. Now, if you want, you may also use GitHub's git client, but for the purposes of this tutorial, we will be using GIT. Now Open the .exe file you just downloaded, and you have a setup pop up. Click on next to go to the second page of the setup, and then click next again to agree to the license. After that, you get to a page where you can choose where to install GIT at, and it really doesn't matter where it is installed, as long as you can use GIT fine. On the next page, this is where you select all the components you want, you should leave all of these the same, unless you want a icon on the desktop/quick launch bar, then you can set check those boxes. Now, you should be at a page where you title the start menu folder, I would just recommend you press next. Now this is very important, on the next page you will have three options, Use GIt Bash Only, Run Git from the Windows Command Prompt, and Run Git and included Unix tools from the Windows Command Prompt, you MUST select the second option which is Run Git from the Windows Command Prompt, it is very important. After you select the second option, click next and you will be met with three more options, but the default is what we need so just click on next again. It should start installing now, just let if finish, and then click on finish to close the installer.