!&# webdev workspace

This is the web development environment used by bangpound on a Mac. It can probably work with few modifications on other environments.

Principles

• Run servers on virtual machines.
• Avoid dependencies where possible in the host environment.
• Avoid editing configuration files at all.
• Prefer editing configuration files once instead of repeatedly.
• Be platform agnostic (so long as the platform is PHP).

Installation for Mac environments

1. Install homebrew and its dependencies.

2. Install VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox.

3. Install Vagrant and the VMWare Fusion provider plugin if applicable.

4. Tap the PHP homebrew repository.

    brew tap josegonzalez/php
   

5. Use homebrew to install dnsmasq.

    brew install dnsmasq
   

6. Configure dnsmasq. This sets OpenDNS as the DNS server.

    cp /usr/local/opt/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.conf.example /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf
    cat >> /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf
    address=/.5/127.0.0.1
    address=/.6/127.0.0.1
    address=/.7/127.0.0.1
    address=/.8/127.0.0.1
    address=/.localhost/127.0.0.1
    address=/.symfony/127.0.0.1
    resolv-file=/etc/resolv.dnsmasq.conf
    ^D
    sudo cat > /etc/resolv.dnsmasq.conf
    nameserver 208.67.222.222
    nameserver 208.67.220.220
    ^D
   

7. Clone this repository in your home directory so that its path is ~/workspace.

    cd ~
    git clone git@github.com:bangpound/webdev-workspace.git workspace
   

8. Also include MySQL client, PHP, Composer, drush. You'll probably need them.

    brew install mysql --client-only
    brew install drush
    brew install composer
    brew install php54 --without-apache
   

9. Run the Vagrant VM.

    vagrant up
   

10. Configure the local connections to MySQL.

    cat > /usr/local/etc/my.cnf
    [client]
    host=127.0.0.1
    port=3306
    password="vagrant"
    

11. Get to work.

    cd ~
    mysqladmin create drupal
    vagrant ssh
    cd /vagrant
    drush dl drupal-7.x drupal-7
    cd drupal-7/sites
    cp -R default my-new-site.7
    logout
    open http://my-new-site.7
    

Credits

This environment is influenced by CivicActions and Drubuntu. Puppet scripts were poached from FunnyMonkey.