Vagrant LAMP

! this project in development - not ready to use !

This project was created basically for myself to be able to quickly prepare web development environment, but feel free to use it or fork it and change according to your needs.

Installation

• Install Vagrant
• Install VirtualBox
• Install Ansible
• Install Vagrant plugin for VirtualBox guest additions

> vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

• Install NFS server on your host (do not forget to allow it in firewall)

Basic facts

• you will get: apache/2.4.17, mysql, php 5.6
• tested on (host): Fedora23, Vagrant 1.8.1, VirtualBox 5.0.10, ansible 1.9.4
• vagrant base box: fedora/23-cloud-base

Anatomy of the development environment

• actual . vagrant directory on the host is shared with the guest /vagrant directory via NFS
• there are several subdirectories, each with own purpose

  ansible  # provisioning for the vagrant box
  config   # directory with configurations (e.g. apache virtualhosts)
  projects # all web project source codes are meant to be stored here in subdirectories
  tools    # scripts (mostly bash) which should help with some dev tasks

Features

• prepared for multiple virtualhosts

• configuration is in shared directory so you can easily create new one from host

• mysql web administration included, running on http://mysql.vg

Configuraton of host machine

• to be able to use adminer (mysql web administration) add this line to your hosts file

192.168.25.25 mysql.vg

Usefull commands (start from vagrant box terminal)

• sudo apachectl restart

Notes

• symfony new project is very slow when executed in vagrant box terminal in nfs type sync directory. I think that it's because of NFS filesystem. It's better to use symfony commands (those which changes/creates a lot of files) localy - on the host machine.

TODOs

• install mysql
• test a php project
• create tool for quick virtualhost creation
• domains for the box - idea:
  • mysql.vg - access adminner(mysql)
  • project01.vg - access some project
• install composer
• install npm
• install mail catcher - see https://box.scotch.io/
• think about using ansible_local (having ansible on the guest and starting it there)
  • might be advantage because you wouldn't have to install ansible on the host

Similar projects

• https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-vagrant-examples/tree/master/lamp
• https://box.scotch.io/
• https://github.com/pesterhazy/vagrant-lamp-ansible

Another good sources

• https://github.com/geerlingguy?tab=repositories
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples/tree/master/lamp_simple
• https://github.com/dustymabe/vagrantdirs
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples/tree/master/lamp_simple_rhel7
• http://phansible.com/#section-webservers