diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 900d2a84c..9784da828 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 .DS_Store
+.ddev
 /generator/vendor
 /generator/composer.phar
 /app/vendor
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 774eda66a..862820a9c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -52,6 +52,26 @@ locally by adding this to your `local.php`:
 define('DISABLE_INCLUDE', true);
 ```
 
+## DDEV environment for Developer documentation
+
+DDEV container for the Matomo Developer Documentation site
+
+To start this on your local machine using ddev run the command below.
+
+```bash
+ bash ddev-developer-docs.sh 
+```
+
+The local DDEV url for this container will be https://devdocs.ddev.site/
+
+### Rebuilding
+
+If you want to completely clear the existing setup and start again the following command will reset everything
+
+```bash
+ddev stop --unlist devdocs && rm -rf .ddev && bash ddev-developer-docs.sh 
+```
+
 ## Automatic documentation generation (API-Reference)
 
 ### The first time
diff --git a/ddev-developer-docs.sh b/ddev-developer-docs.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ea2afc9ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ddev-developer-docs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+############################################################
+# Help                                                     #
+############################################################
+Help()
+{
+   # Display Help
+   echo "DDEV setup script for Developer Documentation"
+   echo
+   echo "Syntax: scriptTemplate [-w|h]"
+   echo "options:"
+   echo "a     Audit for security vulnerability advisories"
+   echo "h     Print this Help."
+   echo
+}
+
+Audit()
+{
+    ddev exec -d /var/www/html/app composer audit --locked 2> /dev/null
+}
+
+while getopts ":b:ah" option; do
+   case $option in
+      a) # display security vulnerability advisories
+         Audit 
+         exit;;
+      h) # display Help
+         Help
+         exit;;
+   esac
+done
+
+# Setup ddev if it has not been done yet
+if test -d .ddev; then
+  echo "DDEV already setup"
+else
+    ddev config --project-name=devdocs --project-type=php --docroot="app/public" --php-version=8.2 \
+        --webserver-type=apache-fpm --composer-version=2 --corepack-enable=false --xdebug-enabled=false
+fi
+
+ddev start
+ddev exec -d /var/www/html/app composer install
+if test -d app/tmp/cache; then
+    echo "Cache directory already created"
+else
+    ddev exec -d /var/www/html/app mkdir tmp/cache
+fi
+
+if test -d app/tmp/templates; then
+    echo "Template directory already created"
+else
+    ddev exec -d /var/www/html/app mkdir tmp/templates
+fi
+
+Audit