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CHAPTER 1 INSTALLING FOR THE FIRST TIME

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Tips for Installing Umbraco in Special Environments

One of the great strengths of Umbraco is its simple architecture, which enables it to adapt to a

variety of installation and usage scenarios. Certainly the earlier quick start is a simple scenario

intended for use on a single machine — most likely a web builder’s desktop or laptop — but you can

use this same procedure to install Umbraco on a netbook running Windows 7 or a web server run-

ning Windows 2008. This procedure is also appropriate for installing an evaluation instance, for

an install used to “test” a feature or to reproduce a defect, as well as for a fresh start when building

websites with Umbraco.

Debugging in a Development Environment

For web developers, especially those working with .NET user controls integrated with Umbraco,

the ability to debug code while running Umbraco is important. You can easily do this debugging by

installing Umbraco onto the same physical machine that has Visual Studio installed. This can be

on a local development laptop, a virtual machine, or a remote development machine accessed via

remote desktop. You can also debug .NET code in a running Umbraco instance on domain-joined

machines with the appropriate debugging tools installed and conﬁ gured, but that is beyond the

scope of this book. For this scenario, check out the advanced developer sections of the Umbraco

wiki (

http://our.umbraco.org/wiki).

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