ModXpedite

Start new Modx projects quickly.

Installation

1. Install Vagrant, Virtualbox and Ansible
2. Clone this repository
3. Change into the cloned directory
4. Run vagrant up

A virtual machine will be created, based on Ubuntu 14.04, with the latest available versions of the following software installed:

• Apache2
• PHP
• MySQL
• Modx
• Gitify

Usage

Visit http://localhost:8080/manager/ in your browser to log into the Modx dashboard.

The default Modx admin account is admin and the password is password.

You can develop your site in Modx as usual.

Accessing and navigating around the virtual machine

• Type vagrant ssh from within the ModXpedite directory (cloned from github) to log into the virtual machine.
• The default MySQL account is root. There is no password.
• The Modx web root is /var/vhost/modx.
• The ModXpedite directory (cloned from Github) is mounted at /vagrant inside the virtual machine

Gitify

Gitify is a tool that can extract Modx data to a file structure so that it can be committed to git. Such a workflow might look like this:

1. Do some work in Modx.
2. From the web root of the virtual machine, run gitify extract. The contents of the Modx database are exported. They are stored in the modx subdirectory of the ModXpedite directory - outside the VM.
3. Commit the contents of the modx directory to git.

The process can be reversed if you want to work in an external editor and then import your changes into Modx: use the gitify build command. This can also be used to move a site between Modx instances, for example, from development to staging or production.

Detailed instructions for using Gitify are on the Gitify wiki.