Welcome friend to Kalabox!
Kalabox is the fastest way for professionals to start developing Drupal and Wordpress sites on your local computer. If you haven't already, go to http://www.kalabox.io to download the appropriate version of Kalabox for your operating system.
With Kalabox you can
- Easily mimic your production environment on local
- Setup, develop, pull and deploy your sites super fast.
- Standardize your teams dev environments and tools on OSX, Windows and Linux.
- Easily customize or extend tooling, deployment options and basically any other functionality.
- Free yourself from the tyranny of inferior local development products.
For more info on how you can do some of the above check out the knowledge base
IMPORTANT NOTE: Kalabox versions pre-0.12.x may be impacted by breaking changes introduced in 0.12. If you have uninstalled a pre-0.12.x version of Kalabox you will want to uninstall using the platform appropriate legacy uninstall script. These are available here.
We're distributing keycodes to introduce groups of developers to Kalabox until we have a more stable beta release. Request one and you should get an access keycode for our next release. Sign up here
Curious about what "Alpha" means? Read more here.
Download the correct installer package for your OS from www.kalabox.io.
Double click on the installer. You may be prompted for admin credentials during this process. On Windows you will receive additional UAC prompts throughout the installation process. The entire install generally takes 5 minutes.
Once the installer has completed, you should notice the Kalabox application in your "Applications" directory (Mac) in the Start menu (Windows), or in your Gnome or Unity desktop menu (Fedora/Debian).
If you are having issues installing Kalabox check out our larger installer guide.
Right now Kalabox only integrates with Pantheon. We'll be releasing the ability to have "stock" Drupal sites and integrations with other hosting providers soon, but until then, get a free Pantheon account and create a new Drupal project if you don't already use Pantheon. For more information about using Pantheon-on-Kalabox check out the Pantheon Guide.
Kalabox also includes a CLI tool. If you open a terminal and run "kbox", you should see a variety of commands to run. Click here for more info on the CLI tool.
To get help...
- Make sure your question isn't answered in the wiki documentation.
- Thoroughly search the Github issue queue for any existing issues similar to yours.
- If all else fails, create an issue with the following information:
- A description of the problem.
- What operating system you're using and which Kalabox version (run
kbox versionon the command line). - Relevant error messages (make sure to not include any private information that may be in the error message).
- Steps to recreate the issue.
Some examples of good issue reporting:
Kalabox is an open-source project. As such, support is a community-lead effort. Please help us keep issue noise to a minimum and be patient with the Kalabox community members who donate time to help out.
If you are interested in dedicated support or customizations, check out kalabox.io/support
Installers are built using Docker, so you'll need a Docker host set up. For example, using Docker Machine:
$ docker-machine create -d virtualbox installer
$ eval "$(docker-machine env installer)"Then to build the installer
# Builds for all platforms
make
# Builds for OSX
make osx
# Builds for Windows
make windows
# Builds for .deb/.rpm
make linuxThe resulting installers will be in the dist directory.
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