Hey, y’all — I just got Drupal running locally, all the way from GD down to clean urls. None of that happens by default on OS X. It all involves what Jill calls “typing into the black box” (ie, the CLI):

I’m proud of myself because this takes a fair bit of understanding of the DAMP stack (eg, Entropy PHP, which you can use to easily get GD, still tries to use the deprecated /tmp/mysql.sock and breaks apachectl).

Now I just have to translate and communicate the same to our LAMP stack host so I can deploy, or get Coach Jimmy to give me root on his colobox