I tend to build these things out of nuts and bolts when I need them, but I need to have a turnkey suggestion available that I can recommend to people that need a sandbox to play in – so that they can stop asking me to provide one for them.
Need one for Mac, and one for Windows. Linux users tend to be able to sort this stuff out themselves.
Ideally it would support the following:
– Trivial to install the stack software.
– Single click wordpress install, including database
– Capable of multiple sites
– some kind of ‘hosts’ file management , or proxy shenanigans, (or a similar way of allowing a ‘real’ domain name to be used for a localhost dev site. so that things that depend on *referrer* work properly)
– this is NOT for any kind of ‘real’ hosting. only for new devs to work in on their own machine, localhost only.
I’ve looked around, and seen multiple offerings – but what do you folk recommend?
Docker ? just give them base config and they can have site in less than 5 seconds up…