Setting Up a WordPress Development Environment with DDEV

Requirements Require DDEV and Docker, dDEV and Docker are listed as prerequisites.

Project directory Create a project directory mkdir wp-test-site creates the WordPress project folder.

Ddev config Run ddev config and select WordPress, choose the project name and set project type to WordPress.

Ddev start Start the DDEV project ddev start prints local site URLs such as https://wp-test.ddev.site.

Error cause Missing WordPress core files caused a 403 nginx error 403 forbidden occurred when the project root lacked WordPress core files.