Multiple projects with different databases and IP addresses

[Dobby89]

I've installed the box in a directory called mysite and added 192.168.33.10 mysite.dev to my hosts file so I'm now able to see the site by going to http://mysite.dev. Good.

Now what approach is required for me to set up another project directory called another-site using scotchbox and the hosts file setting of 192.168.33.10 another-site.dev? Does scotch box always use the same IP address or can it be changed?

Basically, how do you set up vagrant and/or scotchbox to work on completely separate projects without IP addresses clashing? With that in mind, how would you set up different databases for each project directory or installation of scotchbox?

[Cethy]

The easy way :

• 1. clone the scotch-box in another dir ;
• 2. edit Vagrantfile, modify this line config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10" to the ip address you want ;
• 3. edit your host file
• 4. And ... done. :)

[whatnickcodes]

Cethy is spot on here. This is exactly how you would do it.

[Dobby89]

Excellent. That's exactly what I was after. Thank you!

[unclepickles]

Thanks for that, I used it and it worked, however wouldn't running two vm's be a burden on the PC?
In Homestead you do provisioning and I guess it is a matter of using multiple hosts on the same VM, can't that be done?

[Eoler]

It's more a disk space hog (Vagrant can't run two VirtualBox VMs at the same time IIRC).
This branch contains Homestead-like .yaml provisioned multisite fork with automatic hosts handling:
https://github.com/Eoler/scotch-box/tree/multisite

[whatnickcodes]

Check this too: https://scotch.io/bar-talk/announcing-scotch-box-2-0-our-dead-simple-vagrant-lamp-stack-improved#multiple-domains-(virtual-hosts)

[Cethy]

@unclepickles It's totally possible to host multiple hosts on the same VM (like any other machine), it's become a matter of apache/nginx/... configuration. But it was not what @Dobby89 wanted to achieve (good separation of his projects).

To answer your question on burden, VirtualBox is very good at handling multiple VMs (usually 3-4 on my mba'13 with no problem, besides the battery).
But then, you CAN optimize while keeping the separation between services with a project like Docker, but ... yeah, this thing is really scary :)

[unclepickles]

Thanks everyone for your wonderful responses, ncerminara 's in particular emplying Yaml is superb.
I love this box it makes life much easier, I used to have loads of problems with Homestead.

Wonder if we can discuss adding/upgrading apps in here too? or is this thread specific to the box only?

[unclepickles]

it's been applied, and it worked, for those who don't know and want a quick explanation it's as follows:
I learnt it from the page in ncerminara's post.
However, here's my setup:

hosts (file)
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
192.168.33.10 main.dev
192.168.33.10 lara1.dev
192.168.33.10 lara2.dev
192.168.33.10 gsd.dev
and then the vagrant file:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

config.vm.box = "scotch/box"
config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10"
config.vm.hostname = "scotchbox"
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/var/www", :mount_options => ["dmode=777", "fmode=666"]

# Optional NFS. Make sure to remove other synced_folder line too
#config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/var/www", :nfs => { :mount_options => ["dmode=777","fmode=666"] }

 config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL

        ## Only thing you probably really care about is right here
        DOMAINS=("lara1.dev" "lara2.dev", "gsd.dev")

        ## Loop through all sites
        for ((i=0; i < ${#DOMAINS[@]}; i++)); do

            ## Current Domain
            DOMAIN=${DOMAINS[$i]}

            echo "Creating directory for $DOMAIN..."
            mkdir -p /var/www/$DOMAIN/public

            echo "Creating vhost config for $DOMAIN..."
            sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/scotchbox.local.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/$DOMAIN.conf

            echo "Updating vhost config for $DOMAIN..."
            sudo sed -i s,scotchbox.local,$DOMAIN,g /etc/apache2/sites-available/$DOMAIN.conf
            sudo sed -i s,/var/www/public,/var/www/$DOMAIN/public,g /etc/apache2/sites-available/$DOMAIN.conf

            echo "Enabling $DOMAIN. Will probably tell you to restart Apache..."
            sudo a2ensite $DOMAIN.conf

            echo "So let's restart apache..."
            sudo service apache2 restart

        done

    SHELL

end

when I open lara1.dev I get the right place, and when I open gsd too I can see what I put in there, and the main file (scotchbox itself) that also works, but lara2.dev I get diverted to main, any suggestions?