Vagrant

Vagrant Local Setup

These instructions assumes:

-Virtualbox installed

-Vagrant installed (if not see https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/)

A. Basics: Setting up project directory, network and ports.

1. Create project directory and then navigate to directory via terminal.

2. Enter: $ vagrant init precise64 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box

3. Enter: $ vagrant up

4. Check installation by logging in with: $ vagrant ssh

5. Logout with: $ exit OR $ logout

6. Set up network and ports by opening newly created “Vagrantfile” in project folder. 

7. In “Vagrantfile” find  and uncommented line “config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080” (line 25).

8. Reload new configurations, enter: $ vagrant reload

9. Start test server to check ports, first login: $ vagrant ssh

10. Then navigate to server project folder: $ cd /vagrant

11. Then start simple server: $ sudo python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80

12. On browser navigate to url: localhost:8080, and should see directory listing of /vagrant

13. Stop server to proceed with further provisioning $ vagrant halt OR $ vagrant suspend OR $ vagrant destroy (destroy is a bit extreme)

B. Apache: manual setup

1. Start or restart vagrant: $ vagrant up OR $ vagrant reload

2. Get update: $ sudo apt-get update

3. Install apache: $ sudo apt-get install apache2

4. Say yes to everything

5. Setup symlink from apache’s default hosting dir /var/www to vagrant project dir. /vagrant: 

    $ sudo rm -rf /var/www

    $ sudo ln -fs /vagrant /var/www

6. Exit ssh: $logout

7. Create test index file: $ echo “<h1>Hello World</h1>” > index.html

8. Got to localhost:8080 and check results.