As you may know, GeologyRocks uses drupal, a rather excellent CMS. This brings about a few headaches when trying to develop your own code for it as the content (i.e. the stuff you need to test out your new code) is in the database, not as a series of HTML files as for a static websites. To help me develop new features for GeologyRocks, I've set up a development environment for drupal-based sites. This is how I did it...

Method

The aim is to create three versions of the website: