![]() You’ve discovered how easy it is to add a new site. So you’ve taken the plunge and installed a copy of Flywheel Local. 2017 update: Now that Flywheel Local is free, there’s really no reason not to try it out! How to migrate a site If you’re a loyal DesktopServer user, you may be happy to wait and see. But unless they move away from a XAMPP setup (which is possible) it will be an all or nothing affair – no hot-swapping of PHP versions. ServerPress have mentioned that DesktopServer will support PHP7 in v4 (although nobody knows when that will be). If things don’t quite work just yet, simply swap the environment back to 5.x and carry on working on the site until it does. ![]() PHP7 gives a significant performance boost to most WordPress sites and compatibility issues are becoming fewer by the day.Īlthough WordPress core is fully PHP7 compatible, there are still some plugins out in the wild that might not be.įlywheel Local gives you the ability to quickly and easily test your site locally in a PHP7 environment. There are plenty of hosts offering it at the time of writing and more will follow. PHP7 will almost certainly become the de-facto PHP version for serving WordPress in the near future. In that case, there is one overriding reason you should choose Flywheel Local: PHP7. If you’re a DesktopServer user and are considering Flywheel Local, I’m assuming you have no interest in Vagrant / VVV (and the configuration headaches that come with it). It’s another benefit of the virtualisation technology that powers Flywheel Local. If you went through the pain of moving from XAMPP/MAMP to DesktopServer, you will appreciate what a boon this is. As long as your development URLs don’t clash between the two apps, they will happily run at the same time. One last thing to note: Flywheel Local and DesktopServer can run side-by-side. If you have a hundred local sites, that adds up. However, each site in Flywheel Local seems to be about 100mb bigger than the equivalent site in DesktopServer. This is mainly due to VirtualBox being installed too. If you already have VirtualBox, that won’t be so much of an issue. The virtualised containers should also work in Flywheel Local’s favour here.įlywheel Local takes up more HD space than DesktopServer. No doubt a lot of that is due to PHP7, but I haven’t experienced any of the random, temporary slowdowns you sometimes get with DesktopServer. ![]() Starting DesktopServer, only to have to immediately restart it has always driven me bonkers!įlywheel Local feels quicker. It also handles permissions in a much saner way than DesktopServer. Other notesįlywheel Local’s UI is much cleaner, with a great notification system that uses MacOS’s in-built notifications. However, because each site is containerised, and you can hot-swap the server software and the PHP version (although not the MySQL version as far as I know) the risk of all sites going down is minimal. And because all sites run on the same Apache/MySQL instance (and you can’t change the PHP version) if one site breaks, they all break.įlywheel Local’s updates are untested as it’s still new. Historically, DesktopServer updates have been known to trash a local dev environment. To update DesktopServer, you have to download the latest version from your ServerPress account and run an installer.įlywheel Local updates from within the app and can be set to autoupdate. gitignore.)īypass login, airplane mode, local admin colour bar ✔ (Called Blueprints, no control over files included / ignored. ✔ (Lets you control which files are included / ignored.) Each site gets one db on the global instance. Separate container for each site.Ī MySQL instance with one db per site container. This is a how-to, not a review, but I’ll give you a quick run-down on the differences between DesktopServer and Flywheel Local. It never pays to rest on your laurels! DesktopServer vs Flywheel Local Out of nowhere, Pressmatic (now Flywheel Local – see the update notice above) has arrived on the scene and delivered pretty much everything that ServerPress have been promising for DesktopServer 4.0. However, we’ve been waiting a long time for v4.0 (come on guys!) And now there’s a new kid on the block. The Musket developer theme framework of which I’m the author, is built around a quick-to-deploy DesktopServer Blueprint. I’ve long recommended DesktopServer as my preferred local development server. And they’ve gone and made it free! They’ve changed the name to Flywheel Local. I’ve updated the article below to take into account the acquisition.
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