My default LAMP development stack configuration for Vagrant.
Download and install VirtualBox
Download and install vagrant
Download a vagrant box (name of the box is supposed to be precise32)
$ vagrant box add precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box
Clone this repository
Go to the repository folder and launch the box
$ cd [repo]
$ vagrant up
Installed software:
- Apache 2
- MySQL
- php + apc + memcached
- phpMyAdmin
- Xdebug with Webgrind
- zsh with oh-my-zsh
- git, subversion
- mc, vim, screen, tmux, curl
- MailCatcher
- Composer
- Phing
- Node.js with following packages:
You can add virtual hosts to apache by adding a file to the data_bags/sites
directory. A docroot will be created automatically in the public
folder, or
you may specify a docroot explicitly by adding a docroot key in the json file.
phpMyAdmin is available on every domain. For example:
http://local.dev/phpmyadmin
XDebug is configured to connect back to your host machine on port 9000 when starting a debug session from a browser running on your host. A debug session is started by appending GET variable XDEBUG_SESSION_START to the URL (if you use an integrated debugger like Eclipse PDT, it will do this for you).
XDebug is also configured to generate cachegrind profile output on demand by adding GET variable XDEBUG_PROFILE to your URL. For example:
http://local.dev/index.php?XDEBUG_PROFILE
Webgrind is available on each domain. For example:
http://local.dev/webgrind
It looks for cachegrind files in the /tmp
directory, where xdebug leaves them.
Note: xdebug uses the default value for xdebug.profiler_output_name, which
means the output filename only includes the process ID as a unique part. This
was done to prevent a real need to clean out cachgrind files. If you wish to
configure xdebug to always generate profiler output
(xdebug.profiler_enable = 1
), you will need to change this setting to
something like
xdebug.profiler_output_name = cachegrind.out.%t.%p
so your call to webgrind will not overwrite the file for the process that happens to serve webgrind.
PHP is configured to send mail via MailCatcher, so you can see the emails that the vagrant box generates. The Web frontend for MailCatcher is running on port 1080 and also available on every domain:
http://local.dev:1080
Composer binary is installed globally (to /usr/local/bin
), so you can simply call composer
from any directory.