Introduction

This is a vagrant box which runs on Ubuntu Xenial LTS. The box will also install the follwing packages:

• Nginx - lastest version
• PHP 7.2
• Node.js 9 and NPM 5
• Composer - latest version

The machine will also stop and remove Apache as a part of installation.

Installation

Before running any of following commands, make sure Vagrant is installed in your machine. For more information and install Vagrant go to the Vagrant offical website.

Because it is a vagrant box, you can run the machine with this command:

vagrant up

When the installation finished, you can view the local webserver in your favourite browser in http://localhost:8080 address.

The document root will be in www/public/ direcotry. Any change in your host will effect on the your virtual machine because of share directory.

Other

Private network IP

Following line make the current machine accessible from current network:

config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.13.2"

Virtual box guest addition

In order to prevent virtual box guest addition to update the machin(s) automatically, add this line in the Vagrantfile:

config.vbguest.auto_update = false

But first you need to check if vagrant-vbguest has installed. You can check it by running this command:

vagrant plugin list

Two machines

In order to have two boxes in one Vagrantfile, you should update the vagrantfile as bellow.

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
    # These 2  lines will effect on both machines
    config.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"
    config.vm.provision :shell, path: "./scripts/common.sh"

    config.vm.define "db" do |db|
        db.vm.provision :shell, path: "./scripts/db.sh"
        db.vm.hostname = "database-server"
        db.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.13.2"
    end

    config.vm.define "web" do |web|
        web.vm.provision :shell, path: "./scripts/web.sh"
        web.vm.hostname = "web-server"
        web.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080
        web.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.13.3"
    end
end