Forking the Repository

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Bucky Roberts edited this page Jul 16, 2015 · 2 revisions

You can now download the source code for the website so that you will have a copy for development.

Step 1

Download GitHub for Windows.

GitHub for Windows allows you to easily download and manage your GitHub repositories from your own computer.

Step 2

Go to the homepage for thenewboston Social Network here. On the top right of the page click "Fork".

This will create a copy of the project to your GitHub account.

Step 3

Open GitHub for Windows and sign in to your GitHub account. Then click the plus button and you will be able to clone the repository for the project.

This will download the project to your computer

Make sure to clone the project into your C:\xampp\htdocs\ directory

Step 4

Once all files have been downloaded, open up XAMPP and start Apache and MySQL.

When Apache and MySQL are running, your computer will act as a web server and you can host websites locally.

The last thing we have left to do is setting up the websites database.