Vagrant environment for Symfony

This project provides a virtual environment for Symfony development using Vagrant.

What's in the box?

When you start Vagrant, this environment will provide the following tools that can be useful when developing for Symfony2:

• Git
• cURL
• MySQL
  • Username: root
  • Password: empty
• SQLite
• nginx
• PHP
• PHP-FPM
• APC
• PEAR
• XDebug
• Beanstalkd
• Memcached
• Node.js:
  • less,
  • casperjs,
  • phantomjs,
  • bower,
  • gulp.

Additionally, it will create a MySQL database called cp that a Symfony application can connect to without any configuration.

Usage and requirements

Ansible

Ansible is used to provision the virtual machine, so you must have that installed. Follow the installation instructions.

Usage

Installation is as easy as cloning a GitHub project:

$ git clone https://github.com/tinker1987/php7-symfony-vm VM
$ cd VM/sources
$ git clone {your project}

After the project is added, you can start the environment like this:

$ cd VM
$ vagrant up

Starting the VM might take some time, since it will download the entire box and additional applications/library. When the VM is done setting up, point your browser towards http://192.168.33.10 and there you have it: Symfony.

Note

If you're using Windows, you have to modify the Vagrantfile a little bit to make it all work (since Windows doesn't support NFS). Replace the following lines in the Vagrantfile:

config.vm.synced_folder ".",  "/vagrant", id: "vagrant-root", :nfs => true
config.vm.synced_folder "./sources/", "/var/www", id: "application",  :nfs => true

with:

config.vm.synced_folder ".",  "/vagrant", id: "vagrant-root"
config.vm.synced_folder "./sources/", "/var/www", id: "application"

//@TODO:

• Make it possible to create virtual hosts by adding new section to site.yml;
• Add script for importing db dump if it is available in db/ folder.

Troubleshooting

I'm not allowed to access my site?

If you visit your site and you get the following error message:

You are not allowed to access this file. Check app_dev.php for more information.

You have to remove the following lines from web/app_dev.php:

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])
    || isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])
    || !in_array(@$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], array('127.0.0.1', 'fe80::1', '::1'))
) {
    header('HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden');
    exit('You are not allowed to access this file. Check '.basename(__FILE__).' for more information.');
}

Why is my site so slow?

If your site is noticeably slow (and I'm talking hundreds of milliseconds), it's because the caching and logging is taking it's time (NFS synchronization). One way to fix this is by changing the cache folder in the app/AppKernel.php file. At the end of the AppKernel class, add the following methods:

public function getCacheDir()
{
    return '/tmp/symfony/cache/'. $this->environment;
}

public function getLogDir()
{
    return '/tmp/symfony/log/'. $this->environment;
}

This will change the location of the cache and log directories you normally find in the app directory of Symfony to the /tmp/symfony directory. This will speed up your site a lot. The downside is that you won't be able to check the log from your host computer (the computer that's running Vagrant).

Credits

Thanks @kleiram for his awesome vagrant-symfony.