Install basic CakePHP development box using Vagrant and Puppet

Overview

Vagrant is a great tool to automate creating and configuring lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. If you are new to Vagrant you might want to take a look at official documentation to get a basic gist who is it for and why to use it.

Host OS software prerequisites:

• Vagrant depends on Oracle's VirtualBox to create all of its virtual environments.
• Download and install Vagrant

Installation:

• Make sure you've installed prerequisites
• Open terminal, cd to working directory and clone the project git clone git://github.com/borivojevic/cakephp-vagrant.git
• Place application source code into cakephp-vagrant/webroot folder
• On the host machine, add a new line to your hosts file pointing to vagrant box' 33.33.33.10 dev.mirkoborivojevic.localhost
• Run vagrant up to start and provision the machine
• Run web browser and go to http://dev.mirkoborivojevic.localhost
• To log in to vagrant box execute ssh vagrant@127.0.0.1 -p 2222
• To turn off virtual machine execute vagrant halt
• To start the virtual machine again execute vagrant up
• To clean up execute vagrant destroy

Default connection parameters

Virtual machine IP:     33.33.33.10
System user:            vagrant
System password:        vagrant
MySQL user:             root
MySQL password:         root
Apache Virtual Host:    dev.mirkoborivojevic.localhost

Packages and libraries that come with the box

• apache2
• php5 (5.5)
• php5-cli
• php5-mysql
• php5-dev
• php-pear
• PHPUnit
• PHP_CodeSniffer
• CakePHP_CodeSniffer
• mysql-server
• phpMyAdmin
• git-core
• vim
• curl
• composer

TODO

• Additional libraries
• cakephp
• xdebug
• Support multiple projects and mountpoints in Vagrantfile (see http://goo.gl/TDACB)

Troubleshooting

VirtualBox sometimes hangs on "Waiting for VM to boot. This can take a few minutes". To fix this enable GUI mode in Vagrant configuration, login in VirtualBox and run "sudo dhclient".