README.md

Vagrant PHP development box

Starting with ubuntu/trusty64, this adds MySQL, PHP 5.5 on Apache, with Mailcatcher, PHPMyAdmin & XHGui profiler.

Installation into your project

1. Copy Vagrantfile and vm-provisioning folder into your project.
2. Copy vm-provisioning/variables.yml.dist to vm-provisioning/variables.yml and set appropriately.
3. Open Vagrantfile and change:
   • the IP address on config.vm.network if you need to.
   • the hostname (config.vm.network)
4. Change any other setting that you want to. Especially check out:
   • vm-provisioning\apachephp\files\php_overrides.ini
   • vm-provisioning\mysql\files\mysql_overrides.cnf
   • vm-provisioning\website\tempalates\vhost.conf
5. Add .vagrant to your project's .gitignore file.

Running the VM

1. Install VitualBox, VirtualBox Guest Additions and Vagrant.

2. Run vagrant up from the command line.

3. Add hostname to /etc/hosts.

   • Use the IP address that's in your Vagrantfile.
   • use the server-name that you sent up in variables.yml.

   i.e. your add this to /etc/hosts or System32\Drivers\Etc\Hosts:

    192.168.99.2 example.dev mailcatcher.example.dev phpmyadmin.example.dev profiler.example.dev
   

URLs

These are the URLs available:

    Website:        http://example.dev
    Mailcatcher:    http://mailcatcher.example.dev
    PHPMyAdmin:     http://phpmyadmin.example.dev
    XHGui profiler: http://profiler.example.dev