Series of problems

[markushausammann]

Hey guys

On my way to the planned pull request I'm finding more an more problems with the current box.

ServerGrove repo is incompatible with CentOS 6.4 boxes

• maybe that's just my lack of sysadmin knowledge, what's your take on this?

Out of date puppet

• solved with a shell provisioner that upgrades puppet but that's rather hacky.

Out of date guest additions

• just found out now when trying to vagrant up a powered off machine. could solve with a shell provisioner too but...

Networking

• don't know why but I just can't access the virtual hosts from my host machine. Did that work for you? If yes, how?

I'm kind of starting to think that maybe fresh base boxes taken from a real ServerGrove VPS would be in order?

Maybe we could chat on Skype about these things... I would really like to contribute but I've hit so many obstacles in the last 5 days that I don't know which direction to take.

[pgodel]

Hi Markus,

The only conflict you may be having with our repo is with MySQL packages, please indicate what kind of issues you are seeing.

Regarding other problems:

• Out of date puppet. The version of puppet installed depends on the box that is downloaded. If the current box has issues a new one should be used. We would have to identify a CentOS box that is good.
• Out of date guest additions:
  Same issue as before
• Networking
  This depends on your setup of Virtual Box.

Taking a box out of our VPS cannot be done because we do not use VirtualBox for virtualization. Any CentOS box that's a standard setup with the addition of the ServerGrove repo should work fine.

We have in our TODO an item to bring this up to date but we have not been able to allocate time to it yet.

[markushausammann]

Hi Pablo

Conflicts: Yes, with MySQL, see also #5

The "Out of date puppet" etc. problems are actually with the already existing CentOS 6.3 box. If you say the base box doesn't matter much I can try and replace that too. The thing is I'm introducing puppet hiera (which needs puppet 3+), to make configuration in one place possible. For example it will be possible to chose between PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. If 5.5 is chosen, apcu is installed instead of apc, etc.

Can you help me with the mysql issues?

[markushausammann]

Networking: I can access my virtual hosts with a standard puphpet centos box, with a seamlingly identical setup I can't access my virtual hosts on the servergrove centos box. I just can't figure out why.