Laravel 4 w/ Vagrant

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

Requirements

• VirtualBox - Free virtualization software Downloads
• Vagrant - Tool for working with virtualbox images Vagrant Home, click on 'download now link'
• Git - Source Control Management Downloads

Setup

• Clone this repository git clone http://github.com/bryannielsen/Laravel4-Vagrant.git
• run vagrant up inside the newly created directory
• (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
• You can verify that everything was successful by opening http://localhost:8888 in a browser

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/

Default MySQL Database

• User: root
• Password: root
• DB Name: database

Using Vagrant

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

Virtual Machine Specifications

• OS - Ubuntu 12.04
• Apache - 2.2.22
• PHP - 5.4.14
• MySQL - 5.5.24
• Beanstalkd - 1.4.6
• Redis - 2.2.12