Umbraco Engage
# help-with-umbracod
Daisy157
02/25/2025, 6:34 PMHas anyone setup umbraco engage to run locally? I have project hosted on umbraco cloud and want to try umbraco engage locally but having issue setting up sql server. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Matt Bliss
02/26/2025, 3:17 PMHi @Daisy157 , I've just posted a similar question here https://discord.com/channels/869656431308189746/1344324844484825149 and then found your question a few minutes later... thought it would be good to cross link the two posts, in case either gets an answer
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Daisy157
02/26/2025, 4:27 PM@Matt Bliss let’s hope someone can guide us. I am really stuck as I am installing in local using terminals and can’t run my site locally as sqlLite error
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Matt Bliss
02/26/2025, 4:31 PMI'm sure someone will
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jamesbrowneuk
03/03/2025, 10:22 AM@Matt Bliss I am also running on a Macbook with Apple Silicon .... based on your comment, sounds like it needs to connect to a SQL server right?
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Dean Leigh
03/03/2025, 10:38 AMI have engage installed on a cloud project running locally.
My db is running in SQL Server and I'm on Windows.
However, it's only Engage basic… i.e. for stats
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jamesbrowneuk
03/03/2025, 10:43 AMYeah - I think the issue I am going to have is running this on a Mac natively (i.e. without SQL running in Parallels)
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Matt Bliss
03/03/2025, 11:44 AMYeah a bit of a pain: Engage needs full SQL, it won't support SQLLite, I tried following the Parallels suggestion of install a Ubuntu VM with the emulation needed and then install SQL server through docker, but since the article was published there have been new versions of Ubuntu, docker and SQL and there are security conflicts that would have needed more investigation. So I went the alternative which is SQL Local DB which will run on Windows 11 in Parallels on Apple Silicon, I had issues with connection strings which I did resolve eventually. When I get time I'll write up an article the approach that worked
Matt Bliss
03/03/2025, 11:47 AMIf you're not running Paralells and running it natively on the mac then the next thing on my list to try was Docker installed directly on the Mac with a SQL container. Would love to hear if you have any success making that work
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Mike Chambers
03/03/2025, 12:07 PMDepending on the risk.. (eg if only one developer, and if you are only working against the DB for readonly things.. or indeed if you have a dev environment on cloud?) just point the local setup to run against the cloud DB? (adding your ip to the cloud project firewall for sql access)
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Matt Bliss
03/03/2025, 12:38 PMYeah, I wanted to avoid the risks involved with that approach, but something to be weighed up I guess
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