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* It’s focused directly on running containers.
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* It’s fast and stable.
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### Can I run DDEV on an older Mac?
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Probably! You’ll need to install an older, unsupported version of Docker Desktop—but you can likely use it to run the latest DDEV version.
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Check out [this Stack Overflow answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/69964995/897279) for a walk through the process.
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### Do I need to install PHP, Composer, nginx, or Node.js/npm on my workstation?
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No. These tools live inside DDEV’s Docker containers, so you only need to [install Docker](../install/docker-installation.md) and [install DDEV](../install/ddev-installation.md). This is especially handy for Windows users where there’s more friction getting these things installed.
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Inside your project container, where the app itself is running, the database hostname is `db`
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Inside your project container, where the app itself is running, the database hostname is `db`
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(**not**`127.0.0.1`) and the port is the default for your database engine—`3306` for MySQL/MariaDB, `5432` for PostgreSQL.
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Outside your project’s web container, for example a database GUI on your workstation, the hostname is `localhost` and the port is unique to that project. In the example above, it’s `63161`.
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### How can I configure a project with the defaults without hitting <kbd>RETURN</kbd> a bunch of times?
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Use `ddev config --auto` to set the docroot and project type based on the discovered code.
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Use `ddev config --auto` to set the docroot and project type based on the discovered code.
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If anything in `.ddev/config.yaml` is wrong, you can edit that directly or use [`ddev config`](../usage/commands.md#config) commands to update settings.
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