Getting Started

Installation

NativeDev currently supports Debian and Ubuntu based distributions.

Install the latest release package: Download

sudo apt install ./nativedev_<version>_all.deb

First Launch

After opening NativeDev:

1. Review the system requirements.
2. Allow required privileged operations when requested.
3. Configure your development preferences.
4. Configure Local Development wildcard DNS and Nginx routing when you are ready to serve parked projects.
5. Install/trust mkcert only if you want optional local HTTPS.

Your first local project

With the default Local TLD, a project directory named example uses:

HTTP   → http://example.test
HTTPS  → https://example.secure.test

HTTP is the default development path. HTTPS is optional. After Local Development routing is configured, the Projects page shows Open HTTP and Open HTTPS for each detected project; the HTTPS action becomes available after the local wildcard certificate is configured.

See Local Development for parking, DNS, PHP selection, and HTTPS setup.