Virtual Machines for Elefant Development

This project provides scripts and workflow for developing LAMP-based web applications, with the additional option of installing the latest Elefant CMS code into a new site.

Status: Used for personal/work development, still being fleshed out for wider general use. Bug reports, suggestions and improvements are most welcome.

Requirements

Tested on Mac OS X, and requires the following tools:

• Berkshelf
• Chef-solo
• Vagrant
• VirtualBox

Getting started

Once you've installed the above tools, clone and initialize your setup like this:

git clone https://github.com/jbroadway/elefant-vagrant ~/projects
cd ~/projects
berks install

This will create a ~/projects folder, under which all of your web projects will be run, and install the Chef recipes needed for your virtual machines.

Now to create your first project, use:

sudo ./new-project testsite elefant

This command does several things:

1. Adds a new www.testsite.dev alias to /etc/hosts
2. Creates a Vagrant project under ~/projects/testsite
3. Installs Elefant into this folder and sets the necessary permissions
4. Starts the virtual machine (vagrant up)

After the script completes successfully, you should be able to browse to http://www.testsite.dev/ and be taken to the Elefant installer.

Your source files live in ~/projects/testsite/www on the host machine, which is mapped to /var/www/elefant in the virtual machine.