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Manolo Bevia edited this page Feb 15, 2019 · 4 revisions

The information below is for the 3 current UNITS projects on Pantheon: HOTEL, VET, PSL

Setup WP Pantheon's local instances

  • Get a pantheon account (please ask CUL-IT)
  • Install Docker
  • Install Lando (https://github.com/lando/lando/releases) for setting up a WP local environment using a Pantheon recipe. When you install Lando, PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE BETA VERSION https://github.com/lando/lando/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.41 not the release candidate. The last one has so many issues.
  • Log in pantheon and create a new machine token under account.
  • In terminal:
    • Create a folder for your WP site
    • lando init pantheon
    • Choose your pantheon account
    • Choose site (ex:physicalsciences)
    • lando start
    • Once you have created a new token: Run this in your terminal for Pantheon authentication: lando terminus auth:login --machine-token=<YOUR MACHINE TOKEN>
    • lando pull (pull from db, code, files from PANTHEON DEV)
    • lando info (get the url to run your local WP site. Example: ... "urls": [ "https://localhost:33041", "http://localhost:33042" ] ...)
    • Go to your browser and open your WP instances (use the https url from EDGE_SSL)
      • Get site admin credentials (ask mb863@cornell.edu)

Other ways to setup a local environment: https://pantheon.io/docs/local-development/

The good thing about lando is that you can pull/push db and files vs importing/ exporting from dev to local and viceversa. The best part is that you don't need to have a MAMP environment since docker takes care of that. Note: the current Lando RC(v3.0.0-rc.1) is not very stable with pantheon recipes. The best option for support is to join lando slack workspace (https://launchpass.com/kalabox).

Some resources:

  • Lando Doc https://docs.devwithlando.io/tutorials/wordpress.html
  • Terminus Doc https://pantheon.io/docs/terminus/
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