POOF! I've cloned a website!
Doug Hercules ( dhercjr on drupal.org ) is a graduate of the 2012 class of the DrupalEasy Career Starter Program ( http://drupaleasy.com/dcsp ) and currently working as an intern with DrupalEasy. This week I had the opportunity to clone a website from a git repository using Quickstart . Quickstart is a really quick, pre-made PHP Drupal development environment in a VirtualBox , which allows you to install a virtual machine to run Linux on your Windows PC. I've only gone through the process of cloning a site into Quickstart once before, and this time I thought I’d document it in my blog for myself and anyone else who might want to do this in the future. The general idea is this - there’s a site that I need to work on that is stored in a remote git repository. I want to get a copy of the site up-and-running inside Quickstart. To get started, I downloaded Quickstart, installed VirtualBox, then imported the Quickstart file into it.