Installing your first Drupal site

1. On your local machine (host machine or simply host) go into the folder /sites.
2. Download a Drupal project (eg using drush, drush dl drupal) on this folder. You can also clone a project from a git repo and generally you can put any Drupal project (including core files) here.
3. Rename this folder to a domain pattern folder (eg test.localdomain.dev). This will be the domain to access the site on localhost.
4. On the parent folder (where Vagrantfile exist) run vagrant up to bring up the virtual machine (vm).
5. Run vagrant provision. In this step parrot will make its magic and create a vhost with the same domain as the folder of the project.
6. Create a new database on the vm using mysql cli or phpmyadmin. User is root, password is root too. You can also import an existing database to mysql using instructions from https://github.com/computerminds/parrot/wiki/Mysql-server#auto-database-import.
7. Add the new local domain on your hosts file so host machine can access the site.
8. Open the local domain with your browser and install Drupal site normally using the database you just created/entered.

Here is an example of the steps for an Ubuntu host.

cd sites
# current drupal 7.x version is 7.38
drush dl drupal
...
mv drupal-7.38 test.localdomain.dev
cd ../
vagrant up
...
vagrant provision
...
# login to guest mysql server
mysql -u root -proot -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306
# Create the database
mysql> CREATE DATABASE `localdomain` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
mysql> exit

# Edit /etc/hosts. Needs sudo if you are not root.
sudo echo '192.168.50.4  test.localdomain.dev' >> /etc/hosts