Set up a PHP development box super fast

Installation

• Install VirtualBox
• Install vagrant using the installation instructions in the Getting Started document
• Clone this repository and cd into it
• Run vagrant up in order to set up the box using the ansible_local provisioner
• You should now have your working
  • Symfony2 Standard Edition under https://192.168.50.4:8081/
  • Laravel Quickstart example app under https://192.168.50.4:8082/
  • CakePHP base installation under https://192.168.50.4:8083/
  • Wordpress base installation under https://192.168.50.4:8084/

The installation process will create folders symfony-standard, laravel-quickstart, cakephp, wordpress inside the main directory of the repository. You can now start working inside these folders directly on your host computer using your favourite IDE. Changes done there will be reflected directly on the vagrant box as the directory is mounted in the vagrant box under /vagrant. Also you can login into the box using vagrant ssh and have the full control over processes etc.

As the provisioning using the ansible provisioner is very fast you can repeat the whole procedure at any time. In order to start fresh just run vagrant destroy and vagrant up. This will undo all you manual changes done on the vagrant box and provide you with a clean setup.

NOTE: You must delete or move the development folders prior to vagrant up after a destroy. If these folders exist, the process will fail.

Installed components

• Nginx
• MySQL
• PHP 7.0
• php-fpm
• git
• Composer
• CakePHP 3
• Wordpress
• Symfony2 Standard Edition
• Laravel
• NodeJS
• PHPUnit

If you don't like/need some of the components just remove them from the roles section in playbook/vagrant.yml.

Changes

unreleased

v1.4.1

• Introduce php_version variable, set PHP default version to 7.0 #33
• Upgrade Ubuntu box to 16.04 (latest LTS version) #33

v1.4.0

• Transfer ansible playbooks to roles #31

v1.3.0

• Switch provisioner to ansible #18

v1.0.0

• Provision development environment using puppet