Vagrant WordPress

A development environment for WordPress developers in a virtual machine, managed by Vagrant and provisioned by Chef solo.

Installation

Install Vagrant 1.2.x.

Install VirtualBox.

Clone this repository and init submodules:

$ cd [repo]
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

Launch the virtual machine with:

$ vagrant up

Settings

By default, the WordPress cookbook installs the latest version of WordPress to /var/www. To change this, edit the relevant section in the Vagrantfile. For further documentation see the README of the WordPress cookbook.

:wordpress => {
  :version    => "latest",
  :dir        => "/var/www",
  :db => {
    :database   => "wordpress",
    :user       => "wordpress",
    :password   => "wordpress"
  }
}

The MySQL root password is set to vagrant.

Installed software by default

• Apache2 with PHP
• MySQL
• Git and Subversion
• latest version of WordPress