Set up a PHP development box super fast

Installation

• Install vagrant using the installation instructions in the Getting Started document
• Add a Ubuntu Precise box using the available official boxes, for example: vagrant box add phpdevbox http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box (make sure it's named phpdevbox)
• Clone this repository
• Install submodules with git submodule update --init
• After running vagrant up the box is set up using Puppet
• You should now have your working Symfony2 Standard Edition under http://localhost:8181/app_dev.php (You have to uncomment or remove some lines at the beginning of web/app_dev.php that restrict access to this file. Is no risk as you should not deploy that file to prodution anyway.)

Installed components

• Nginx using puppet module (https://github.com/example42/puppet-nginx)
• Apache using puppet module (https://github.com/example42/puppet-apache)
• php-fpm using puppet module (https://github.com/saz/puppet-php)
• git
• pear using puppet module (https://github.com/rafaelfelix/puppet-pear)
• Node.js
• npm
• less
• Symfony2 Standard Edition
• MySQL using puppet module (https://github.com/example42/puppet-mysql)
• MongoDB using puppet module (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mongodb)
• Capistrano
• capifony
• Most of the phpqatools using puppet module (https://github.com/rafaelfelix/puppet-phpqatools)
• xdebug

Debugging

If you want to debug your cli application using xdebug for example with Netbeans just run this command before executing the cli app:

.. code-block:: sh

$ export XDEBUG_CONFIG="idekey=netbeans-xdebug remote_host=192.168.33.1 profiler_enable=1 default_enable=1 remote_enable=1 remote_handler=dbgp remote_port=9000 remote_autostart=0"

Hints

Startup speed

To speed up the startup process use

.. code-block:: sh

$ vagrant up --no-provision

after the first run. It just starts the virtual machine without provisioning of the recipes.

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