Laravel 4 w/ Vagrant

A basic Ubuntu 12.04 Vagrant setup with Laravel4 and PHP 5.4.

Requirements

VirtualBox - Free virtualization software Downloads ** Install virtualbox https://www.virtualbox.org/
Vagrant - Tool for working with virtualbox images Vagrant Home, click on 'download now link' ** V1.1.5 download your flavor and install.
Git - Source Control Management Downloads

Clone this repo http://www.github.com/1360/Laravel4-Vagrant
Clone sims project repo into Laravel4-Vagrant/www/ directory (if this step is skipped vagrant may error out.)
cd back to Laravel4-Vagrant/ and run run vagrant up from command line (allow firewall access if prompted. the first time you run vagrant it will need to fetch the virtual box image which is ~300mb so depending on your download speed this could take some time)
Vagrant will then use puppet to provision the base virtual box with our LAMP stack (this could take a few minutes) also note that composer will need to fetch all of the packages defined in the app's composer.json which will add some more time to the first provisioning run
ssh/putty into vagrant machine.
in /var/www/ clone sims repo
Run composer
You can verify that everything was successful by opening http://localhost:8888 in a browser

web file on host machine in vagrant folder relative path www/ website http://localhost:8888/ phpmyadmin http://localhost:8888/phpmyadmin/ root/root

Note: You may have to change permissions on the www/app/storage folder to 777 under the host OS

For example: chmod -R 777 www/app/storage/

Vagrant is very well documented but here are a few common commands:

vagrant up starts the virtual machine and provisions it
vagrant suspend will essentially put the machine to 'sleep' with vagrant resume waking it back up
vagrant halt attempts a graceful shutdown of the machine and will need to be brought back with vagrant up
vagrant ssh gives you shell access to the virtual machine (gives connection info for putty on windows)
vagrant destroy - removes the vm from your box (rebuild machine on next vagrant up)
vagrant reload - reloads the virtual machine