Acquia Dev Desktop: Develop & Run Drupal Sites Locally
The Fast Track to Drupal
Acquia Dev Desktop has a full Drupal-specific stack that includes Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Also, due to its integration with Acquia Cloud, Dev Desktop is the easiest method to publish, develop, and synchronize your local Drupal websites onto the web.
Integrate With Acquia Cloud To:
Publish
Publish local sites to Acquia Cloud (Free, Professional, or Enterprise) for the benefits of the world’s most powerful Drupal platform, including scalable cloud hosting, team development, dev, stage, and prod environments, and Git workflow.
Clone
Clone any of your Acquia Cloud sites, including any Acquia Cloud environment to work on them offline in Dev Desktop. Clone from any of your Acquia Cloud environments (dev, stage, prod, or custom environments).
Synchronize
Make any code, database, or file changes on Acquia Cloud or on your local machine and synchronize them. Pull or push code, databases, or files between Acquia Cloud and the local site running in Dev Desktop.
Use Multisite
Take advantage of Drupal multisite to maintain one code base that runs multiple sites using different databases and files.
Work Offline
Work offline or anywhere on your development projects.
Welcome Wizard
Configure a Drupal website on your Mac or Windows computer using either your choice of several popular Drupal distributions, any Drupal distribution you download, or your Acquia Cloud sites.
What's Included:
Dev Desktop app
The heart of Dev Desktop, the app lets you manage your local or cloud-based sites, including Drupal multisite, and optionally synchronize them with Acquia Cloud. App updates are checked automatically.
Apache web server
The world's most popular web server
Percona MySQL database server
The world's most popular database server
PHP
Multiple versions of the programming language that powers Drupal
phpMyAdmin
A popular MySQL management and query tool
XMail Server (Windows only)
An email server that allows your site to send email directly (Mac OS X has this functionality built in)
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