WordPress VM with LAMP Stack via Ansible on Vagrant

Setup WordPress VM with LAMP Stack on RHEL/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu using Ansible as provisioner on Vagrant

Requirements

1. Make sure your machine supports Virtualization
2. VirtualBox installed - get it from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
3. Vagrant installed - get it from http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

Getting started

TL;DR

1. Clone this repo to your machine
2. cd into this repo and run vagrant up
3. Update hosts file and add 10.0.0.10 wordpress.vm
4. Access project at http://wordpress.vm

To start using wordpress-vm, do the following:

1. Clone this repo to a preferred directory in your machine

2. cd into this repo and update config.yml according to your preferences

   A few variables you can play in config.yml

   • vm_box - You can try any distro verions under RHEL or Debian (e.g. ubuntu/trusty64, geerlingguy/centos7)
   • vm_ip - Change to any private IP you prefer or leave as is
   • vm_name - Set your VM's name
   • vm_hostname - Set the hostname of your VM. This is also used as WordPress' base url.
   • wp_project_dir_name - Directory name where wordpress is installed
   • wp_db_name - Database name used by WordPress and provisioned by geerlingguy.mysql ansible role.
   • wp_db_user - Database user used by WordPress and provisioned by geerlingguy.mysql ansible role.
   • wp_db_pass - Database password used by WordPress and provisioned by geerlingguy.mysql ansible role.

3. Run vagrant up

4. Update your hosts file

   In order for your project to be accessible, you need to edit your hosts file and add the following:

   10.0.0.10 wordpress.vm
   

   The IP should correspond to the vm_ip provided on config.yml in case you modify it.

   • Editing hosts file on Windows

     For Windows host machine, you can edit your hosts file by doing the ff:

     1. Run cmd as administrator > search for cmd in start menu > right click > run as administrator
     2. Once in cmd, type and enter notepad drivers\etc\hosts
     3. Add 10.0.0.10 wordpress.vm and save

   • Editing hosts file on Linux

     For Linux host machine, you can edit your hosts file by doing the ff:

     1. Launch terminal
     2. Once in terminal, type and enter sudo vi /etc/hosts
     3. Add 10.0.0.10 wordpress.vm and save

   • Automating edit on hosts file

     If you want to automate the editing of your hosts file, install the vagrant-hostsupdater plugin by running

     vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
     

     You will need to run your CMD as admin on Windows when doing this.

5. Once you've updated your hosts file, you can now access your project at http://wordpress.vm

WordPress Admin

The default username and password for wp-admin is admin for both.

Ansible Roles

• ansible-role-repo-epel - Installs EPEL repo
• ansible-role-mysql - Installs MySQL database server
• ansible-role-apache - Installs Apache server
• ansible-role-php - Installs PHP and some of its common modules
• ansible-role-ppa-ondrej - Installs ondrej/php ppa for Debian/Ubuntu
• ansible-role-repo-webtatic - Installs the Webtatic repository on RHEL/CentOS
• config-repos - Install repos based on distribution
• sbaerlocher.wp-cli - Install wp-cli
• wordpress - Configure and Install WordPress core and plugins

To do

• Make VM more customizable through config (e.g. cpu, memory)
• Add test suite for Travis-CI

License

MIT