If you have a decent PC probably the most convenient way to deploy a development environment is visualization. Vagrant and phphet make it very very easy.
1- Install the latest version of Virtualbox
Virtualbox allow you to run virtualizations of different operative systems in your windows environment.
2- Install the latest version of Vagrant
Vagrant will wrap virtualbox and give you the power to run Virtualbox from outside making the configuration process much easier.
3- Create a configuration from Puphpet
Puphpet is an online service that help you to create the vagrant configuration file with the server configuration of your choice.
You will need to go through the multiple screens and select the server type, db, users, ssh etc. then download to your designed folder where you want to place your virtualizations.
At the end you will unzip the server in the windows folder you want to run the server.
4- Run the server through Vagrant.
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open a windows console and move to your server download.
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$ vagrant up
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now you can access the server via ssh
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$ vagrant ssh (you will need a bash terminal like git bash or similar)
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or you can open winSCP in sftp mode with putty using the address
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show in the console after you type vagrant ssh:
The credentials for normal default sftp user are:
vagrant – vagrant
The credentials for root are
root – no password
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to finish working with the server:
$ vagrant destroy
Enjoy
