Vagrant CakePHP installation

A simple LAMP stack virtual machine with a pre-configured CakePHP installation. Get a clean, isolated development environment for your project setup in seconds.

CakePHP 2.4.1
PHP 5.5 (PPA: zanfur/php5.5)
Apache 2.2
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise64)
MySQL 5.5.32

Requirements

VirtualBox with a host only network 192.168.5.1 with netmask 255.255.255.0 (192.168.5.0/24). If you need help with this, follow step 1 and 2 from this guide.
Vagrant 1.3+
Salty Vagrant plugin (vagrant plugin install vagrant-salt)

Usage

Install VirtualBox, Vagrant and the Salty Vagrant plugin.
Clone this repo, CD into the folder, remove the existing git repo:

    git clone git://github.com/ronalddddd/vagrant_cake.git && rm -rf vagrant_cake/.git && cd vagrant_cake

Boot the VM:

    vagrant up

Done. Start coding! The host's www directory is shared with the VM's /var/www directory, where the cake installation lives.

Suspend, Resume, Destroy

To suspend the VM, keeping all states intact (aka hibernate), use the command vagrant suspend. *** To bring it back up, use vagrant resume.*** Do not use vagrant up, as this will cause the www folder to be remounted with the wrong permissions.

When you're done with the VM and no longer want to keep the VM states (the VM's virtual disk), use vagrant destroy to remove the instance. Your shared folder (www) will remain untouched.

IP Address

You can browse to the cake installation at http://192.168.5.2. You can change this address in /Vagrantfile before calling vagrant up

To setup the network on virtualbox, follow step 1 and 2 from this guide.

Port forwarding

If you need to access the VM's web port from the host machine's IP, you can uncomment the line #config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080 in /Vagrantfile. This will create a host:8080 port forward to you your VM's port 80. Feel free to change/add port forwards.

Database

Database dump will be imported from [project path]/database.sql when the vagrant instance is created.
Default database is named dev_app. MySQL user cake_user has been granted all privileges to that DB.

Crontab

The /salt/roots/crontabs.sls config file manages which crontab template to use (and what user to run as) when setting up the VM. A default template is provided in /salt/roots/crontabs/www-data.cron, which runs as the apache daemon user "www-data".

User credentials

Below is a list of user credentials for this vm:

SSH: vagrant/vagrant
MySQL root: root/[null]
MySQL cake user: cake_user/[null]

Todos:

clean up salt states
add staging/production salt configurations