# Installing Varbase locally with Lando

[Lando](https://lando.dev/) is a great local development environment for Drupal and other applications that vastly simplifies local development and DevOps so you can focus on the application, rather than the environment.

Learn more about Lando on the official website: [lando.dev](https://lando.dev/)

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[**Lando**](https://lando.dev/) **is a development tool!**

Note that while you can run Lando in production, it is highly discouraged, not recommended, and 100% not supported! DON'T DO IT!
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Follow the steps below to setup Varbase with Lando.

1. Install Lando on your machine. Whether you use Linux, Mac, Windows, there's a package for you. [Follow this guide to install Lando on your machine](https://docs.lando.dev/basics/installation.html#system-requirements).<br>
2. Create a new Varbase project using Composer, this will include a template file for *.lando.yml*, for information on how to integrate Lando on an existing project scroll to the bottom of this page.

   ```
   composer create-project vardot/varbase-project:~10.1.0 MY_VARBASE_PROJECT --no-dev --no-interaction
   ```
3. Edit the *.lando.yml* file and change the `name` value to your project's name.

   ```
   cd MY_VARBASE_PROJECT
   vim .lando.yml
   ```
4. Edit the *settings.php* file and add the following code to setup the database connection and the config sync directory.

   ```
   $databases['default']['default'] = [
     'database' => 'drupal10',
     'username' => 'drupal10',
     'password' => 'drupal10',
     'prefix' => '',
     'host' => 'database',
     'port' => '3306',
     'isolation_level' => 'READ COMMITTED',
     'driver' => 'mysql',
     'namespace' => 'Drupal\\mysql\\Driver\\Database\\mysql',
     'autoload' => 'core/modules/mysql/src/Driver/Database/mysql/'
   ];

   $settings['config_sync_directory'] = '../config/sync';

   ```
5. Start the **Lando** project and enjoy.

   ```
   lando start
   ```

For more information on the Lando file configuration, read more on <https://docs.lando.dev/drupal/getting-started.html>

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You can type `lando info` to know the MySQL database hostname, username,  password, and all environment config you'll need.
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### Adding Lando to an existing Varbase project

1. Download `.lando.yml` file and `.lando` folder from the Varbase project repository <https://github.com/Vardot/varbase-project> .
2. Proceed with steps 3, 4, 4, and 5 mentioned above.