diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6425cd7e..5371df28 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,2 @@
-.DS_Store
-composer.lock
-config.php
-hashru.sublime-project
-hashru.sublime-workspace
+composer-setup.php
+composer.phar
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6bdbbff5..c97a190a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,12 +13,22 @@ The Kabuki codebase requires the following PHP extensions to be enabled for full
 
 ## Setup
 
-Copy `config.php.dist` to `config.php` and set-up the constants contained in the file.
+Copy `config.php.dist` to `config.php` and set-up the constants contained in the file. For development, consider starting from `config-dev.php.dist`.
+
+Ensure you have a MySQL database running with credentials matching your `config.php`. For development, consider the /dev/docker-compose.yml file.
+
+Run `composer install`. If you do not have composer installed globally, run it from the project directory as follows:
+
+```
+wget -O composer-setup.php https://getcomposer.org/installer
+php composer-setup.php --install-dir=.
+php ./composer.phar install
+```
 
 ## Running
 
 For development purposes, simply run the `server` script provided in the root of this repository.
-This will start a PHP development server on `hashru.local:8080`.
+This will start a PHP development server on `127.0.0.1:8080`.
 
 For a production environment, please set up a proper PHP-FPM environment instead.
 
diff --git a/config-dev.php.dist b/config-dev.php.dist
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..18641bc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config-dev.php.dist
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<?php
+/*****************************************************************************
+ * config.php
+ * Contains general settings for the project.
+ *
+ * Kabuki CMS (C) 2013-2015, Aaron van Geffen
+ *****************************************************************************/
+
+const DEBUG = true;
+const CACHE_ENABLED = true;
+const CACHE_KEY_PREFIX = 'hashru_';
+
+// Basedir and base URL of the project.
+const BASEDIR = __DIR__;
+const BASEURL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8080'; // no trailing /
+
+// Reply-To e-mail header address
+const REPLY_TO_ADDRESS = 'no-reply@my.domain.tld';
+
+// Assets dir and url, where assets are plentiful. (In wwwroot!)
+const ASSETSDIR = BASEDIR . '/public/assets';
+const ASSETSURL = BASEURL . '/assets';
+
+// Thumbs dir and url, where thumbnails for assets reside.
+const THUMBSDIR = BASEDIR . '/public/thumbs';
+const THUMBSURL = BASEURL . '/thumbs';
+
+// Database server, username, password, name
+const DB_SERVER = '127.0.0.1';
+const DB_USER = 'hashru';
+const DB_PASS = 'hashru';
+const DB_NAME = 'hashru_pics';
+const DB_LOG_QUERIES = false;
+
+const SITE_TITLE = 'HashRU Pics';
+const SITE_SLOGAN = 'Nijmeegs Nerdclubje';
diff --git a/dev/docker-compose.yml b/dev/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fc7e37f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+version: '3'
+services:
+  mysql:
+    image: mysql:latest
+    ports:
+      - 3306:3306
+    environment:
+      MYSQL_USER: 'hashru'
+      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'hashru'
+      MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: 'yes'
+      MYSQL_DATABASE: 'hashru_pics'
diff --git a/server b/server
index 285e1db8..ff0d5f04 100755
--- a/server
+++ b/server
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-php -S hashru.local:8080 -t public
+php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 -t public