Magento Developer Box

Introduction

The purpose of this Magento Developer Box is to allow for testing and developing locally with the latest Magento release.

I have taken inspiration for the box from the documentation but have chosen MariaDB over Percona for the MySQL drop-in replacement and Nginx as webserver.

NB: Please note that provisioning is currently configured for Magento to be installed in /vagrant/application (in the VM) and the instructions for setting up Magento (below) is also based on this setup.

Authentication keys

You need authentiation keys for installing Magento via Composer.

Documentation: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/install-gde/prereq/connect-auth.html

Quicklink (requires account): https://marketplace.magento.com/customer/accessKeys/

Installation via Composer (requires authentication keys)

Documentation: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/install-gde/install/cli/install-cli-sample-data-composer.html

$ cd /vagrant
$ composer create-project --repository=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition application

Setup up Magento via CLI:

The following installation instruction is for local development based on the Vagrant setup.

Please review the options to ensure that settings are as you need.

 $ cd /vagrant/application
 $ bin/magento setup:install \
--base-url=http://192.168.22.65 \
--db-host=localhost \
--db-name=vagrant \
--db-user=vagrant \
--db-password=vagrant \
--backend-frontname=admin \
--admin-firstname=admin \
--admin-lastname=admin \
--admin-email=admin@admin.com \
--admin-user=admin \
--admin-password=admin123 \
--language=en_US \
--currency=USD \
--timezone=Etc/UTC \
--use-rewrites=1

Use Redis for cache

Documentation: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/config-guide/redis/redis-pg-cache.html

$ cd /vagrant/application
$ bin/magento setup:config:set --cache-backend=redis

Setup cron for Magento

Documentation: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-cron.html

You can install crontabs and not worry about them:

$ cd /vagrant/application
$ php bin/magento cron:install

Or you can run them when needed:

$ cd /vagrant/application
$ php bin/magento cron:run

Magento mode

Documentation: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-mode.html

Default mode for running Magento is default.

You can change this mode to be either developer or production:

$ cd /vagrant
$ bin/magento deploy:mode:set {mode}

Use Elasticsearch for Catalog Search

Elasticsearch 6.x is installed. Configuration is handled in the administration panel.

Nginx is configured with localhost proxy.

Documentation: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/config-guide/elasticsearch/configure-magento.html