Drush Rebuild requires a properly configured Drush Alias. If you are not familiar with Drush aliases, type drush docs-aliases and read up about them.
Drush Rebuild can only rebuild local environments that have a Drush alias defined.
Let's say you have a production site at example.com, and you want to set up a local development environment at local.example.com.
Your Drush alias at ~/.drush/example.aliases.drushrc.phpmight look like this:
<?php
$aliases['local'] = array(
'root'=> '/path/to/your/repo/docroot',
'uri'=> 'http://local.example.com',
'db-url'=> 'mysql://root:password@localhost/example_local',
);
?>You should be able to type drush @example.local status and get some output.
In this example, your local development environment file structure looks like this:
/docroot <-- contains Drupal
/resources <-- misc resourcesTo modify your alias for Drush Rebuild, make the following change:
<?php
$aliases['local'] = array(
'root'=> '/path/to/your/repo/docroot',
'uri'=> 'http://local.example.com',
'db-url'=> 'mysql://root:password@localhost/example_local',
'path-aliases'=> array(
// Under path aliases, you specify the full path to the rebuild manifest
// for your local environment.
'%rebuild'=> '/path/to/your/repo/resources/rebuild.info',
),
);
?>