Vagrant and Wordpress

A set of files to provision Wordpress on Vagrant. It uses a combination of tools such as Vagrant, VirtualBox, and WP_CLI to get a test environment for WordPress up and going quickly.

Gotchas to provisioning

Well I've had to move the mysql-server install to the second script that is run after you vagrant ssh in. This is due to mysql-server install scripts asking for user input during the install. This didn't work too well with provisioning. So I've moved it. Is there a better way. Oh I'm sure. But this is a learning exercise for me.

How to use (from host machine)

• Install vagrant (sudo apt-get vagrant)
• Install precise 32 $vagrant box add precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box
• Clone repo git clone ... and cd {folder name}
• Execute a vagrant up and/or "vagrant reload --provision" as typical.
• Log in to the box using vagrant ssh

Once in the VM (through vagrant ssh)

• Navigate to the vagrant folder $cd /vagrant
• $./bootstrap.sh (if it didn't run under provision)
• $./service-setup.sh
• $./install_WPCLI.sh
• Change owner ship of /var/www to vagrant (sudo chown vagrant -R /var/www)
• $./setup_wp_site.sh

When all is said and done, you should see something like this in the terminal window

      To edit the site visit: http://192.168.33.10/wp/wp-admin
      Admin User : soc_admin
      Admin Pass : amPqSErC
      Admin Email : email@example.com
      Database User : wp-user
      Database Pass : dXFEUHdJ

Requirements

• virtualbox -- sudo apt-get install virtualbox
• vagrant -- http://vagrantup.com
• precise32 box -- one of the more standard boxes floating around, $vagrant box add precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box (see http://www.vagrantbox.es/)

Other

Database and site passwords are gereated automatically for you using tr -cd '[:alpha:]' </dev/urandom | base64 | head -c 8. If this does make it to a production server (which it shouldn't), please use longer, better passwords. But for a temporary, disposable VM these should be good enough.

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