allowing for developers to override settings on developer machines

.gitignore

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Ignore paths that contain user-generated content.
 /sites/*/files
 /sites/*/private
-/sites/default/settings.local.php
+/sites/default/local.settings.php
 /files/*
 /cache
 

sites/default/default.local.settings.php

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<?php
+/*
+ * Copy this file to local.settings.php in order to override configuration within settings.php
+ * local.settings.php is ignored by git and not deployed to Pantheon
+ */
+ $databases['default']['default'] = array(
+	'driver' => 'mysql',
+	'database' => 'kalamuna_playbox',
+	'username' => 'root',
+	'password' => 'root',
+	'host' => 'localhost',
+  'port' => '8889',
+	'prefix' => '',
+);
+
+$update_free_access = TRUE;
+
+
+$base_url = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/kalamuna/playbox'; // NO trailing slash!
+$cookie_domain = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
+
+#disables Drupal Caching if desired
+/*$conf = array(
+	'cache' => '0',
+	'preprocess_css' => '0',
+	'preprocess_js' => '0',
+	'block_cache' => '0',
+	'page_compression' => '0',
+);*/
+
+ini_set('memory_limit', '500M');
+ini_set('max_execution_time', 300);

sites/default/settings.php

@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@
 /**
  * Include a local settings file if it exists.
  */
-$local_settings = dirname(__FILE__) . '/settings.local.php';
+$local_settings = dirname(__FILE__) . '/local.settings.php';
 if (file_exists($local_settings)) {
   include $local_settings;
 }