TMS:Website Development Log

This is a development log for the main Mars Society website.

The most recent version of the website (v6) was designed by James Burk and Shawna Armstrong.

Local Workstation Setup

• OS: I use Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10. Set this up by downloading Ubuntu 18.04 from the Windows Store.
• Locally installed tools:
  • Windows:
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Filezilla
    • HeidiSQL
    • Git for Windows
  • Ubuntu (within WSL)
    • Apache
    • NPM / Node
    • Gulp
    • Git
    • WP-CLI

I create a C:\Sites folder with Windows Explorer and associate that within Ubuntu by using "ln -s" to make it ~/Sites.

I set up the local Apache to host a domain such as "marssociety.test" to point to localhost with that ~/Sites directory. This allows me to easily use a browser in Windows 10 to test the local instance of the site, running on Apache.