fufu70/HackStetson-Vagrant-NodeJS

Vagrant NodeJS setup

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###Setting up vagrant

So your trying to setup a basic NodeJS environment for your team mates but its taking too much time, TIME TO SETUP VAGRANT!

First download Vagrant and Virtual Box

Now that we have installed our dependencies lets start setting up vagrant

First lets type in the in your console:

$ vagrant init

Now lets setup the Vagrantfile to install a basic virtual box:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

	config.vm.box = "precise32"

	config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box"
	
end

Once we setup the specific box to be used we can then start vagrant to install the box:

$ vagrant up

While the box is installing we can setup a user and password for the box and a working directory both locally and on the server in the Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

	config.vm.box = "precise32"

	config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box"

	config.ssh.username = "vagrant"
	config.ssh.password = "vagrant"

	config.vm.synced_folder "node/", "/var/www/node"
	
end

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Building your Shell script

After the vagrant box is setup and a working directory we need to setup the NodeJS environment on the server. We will be doing this through a basic shell script.

Firstly we need to create a shell script, I called mine "script.sh". My command is to firstly update the box:

#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get -y update 

Then we want to install apache:

sudo apt-get -y install nodejs

After that all we want is to start the node server on vagrant up

node /var/www/node/httpserver.js

After all of that is done your "setup.sh" file should look like this:

#!/bin/bash

# Updating Box

sudo apt-get -y update

# Installing nodejs
sudo apt-get -y install nodejs

Once we've added all of that to the "setup.sh" file we go into the Vagrantfile to define the startup script for our NodeJS environment:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

	config.vm.box = "precise32"

	config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box"

	# Mentioning the SSH Username/Password:
	config.ssh.username = "vagrant"
	config.ssh.password = "vagrant"

	config.vm.synced_folder "node/", "/var/www/node"

	config.vm.define "node" do|node|
		node.vm.hostname = "node" # Setting up hostname
		node.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.205.11" # Setting up machine's IP Address
		node.vm.provision :shell, path: "setup.sh" # Provisioning with script.sh
	end

	# End Configuring
end

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After all of this is finished we can then simply run

$ vagrant reload --provision

to apply our changes to the vagrant server

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##Starting Node Server

Since your done provisioning the vagrant server all we need to do now is ssh into the machine and start up our node server.

$ vagrant ssh

$ cd /var/www/node

$ node httpserver.js

The server should then prompt you that it is listening on port 8080, sooooo simply go into your browser and enter 192.168.205.11:8080

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Once your done with your vagrant box turn it off by running

$ vagrant halt

Or completly wipeout your box to start fresh by calling

$ vagrant destroy