Laravel 4 w/ Vagrant - Global Box

A basic Ubuntu 12.04 Vagrant setup with Laravel4 and PHP 5.5.

Requirements

• VirtualBox - Free virtualization software Download Virtualbox
• Vagrant 1.3+ - Tool for working with virtualbox images Download Vagrant
• Git - Source Control Management Download Git

Setup

• Clone this repository git clone http://github.com/bryannielsen/Laravel4-Vagrant.git
• (the first time you run vagrant it will need to fetch the virtual box image which is ~300mb so depending on your download speed this could take some time)
• Vagrant will then use puppet to provision the base virtual box with our LAMP stack (this could take a few minutes)

Note: You may have to change permissions on the www/app/storage folder to 777 under the host OS

For example: chmod -R 777 www/app/storage/

Usage

Some basic information on interacting with the vagrant box

Fabric Commands

All the fabric commands need to be prefixed with fab vagrant, for example fab vagrant composer will run a composer update.

• composer:'comand string' - This will run the composer command that you request. Ex: fab vagrant composer:'install'
• artisan:'command string' - Similar to above but for artisan commands. Ex: fab vagrant artisan:'migate'
• setProject:projectname - Set the project folder to be the specified name in the parent folder.
• restoreDb - restore the current projects last database dump
• backupDb - Backup the current project's database

Port Forwards

• 8888 - Apache
• 8889 - MySQL
• 5433 - PostgreSQL

Default MySQL/PostgreSQL Database

• User: root
• Password: (blank)
• DB Name: database

PHPmyAdmin

Accessible at http://localhost:8888/phpmyadmin using MySQL access credentials above.

PHP XDebug

XDebug is included in the build but disabled by default because of the effect it can have on performance.

To enable XDebug:

1. Set the variable $use_xdebug = "1" at the beginning of puppet/manifests/phpbase.pp
2. Then you will need to provision the box either with vagrant up or by running the command vagrant provision if the box is already up
3. Now you can connect to XDebug on port 9001

XDebug Tools

• MacGDBP - Free, Mac OSX
• Codebug - Paid, Mac OSX

Note: All XDebug settings can be configured in the php.ini template at puppet/modules/php/templates/php.ini.erb

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Virtual Machine Specifications

• OS - Ubuntu 12.04
• Apache - 2.4.6
• PHP - 5.5.4
• MySQL - 5.5.32
• PostgreSQL - 9.1
• Beanstalkd - 1.4.6
• Redis - 2.2.12
• Memcached - 1.4.13