This is a simple recipe for vagrant that sets up an Ubuntu virtual machine including common daemons and tools required for PHP web development.
You might also be interested in this presentation, which extols the virtues of using Vagrant for PHP development: http://loevborg.karmafish.net/laravel4-pocket/#/laravel-in-your-pocket
Specifically this recipe automatically installs:
- Ubuntu 12.04 (precise), 64bit version
- PHP 5.5
- MySQL
- phpMyAdmin
- beanstalkd
- memcached
- asset comilation tools
- compass
- node.js
This recipe uses the excellent ansible as a provisioning tool for vagrant. It does not use vagrant's ansible plugin, however, because that plugin controls the VM via SSH from the outside (which won't work easily on Windows hosts).
Instead, this recipe runs ansible in its "local" mode (using -c local). As a result, you don't have to install ansible on the host machine. See ansible/provision.sh for details.
To get started, install
- Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com/)
- VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/)
preferably in their latest versions from the web sites.
Then clone this repository to a local directory. After changing into the directory, run:
vagrant up
This should download, run and provision the virtual machine.
If something goes wrong, have a look at ansible/playbook.yml, which contains the provisioning recipe. You can re-provision the VM using:
vagrant provision
After bringing up the virtual machine, open this url in your browser: http://localhost:8888/. You should be greeted by the phpinfo() output from public/index.php.
When you're done playing with the VM, you can delete it:
vagrant destroy