a vagrant installation with all the necessary chef cookbooks to run a basic cakephp application
Vagrant Chef creates a Vagrant installation for CakePHP using Chef with the following features:
heroku,
hub, and
travis
Download and install both VirtualBox and Vagrant for your particular operating system. Should only take a few minutes on a DSL connection.
Once those are downloaded, open up a terminal. We'll need to clone this repository and setup vagrant:
git clone https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/vagrant-chef.git cd vagrant-chef
Now we need to setup the vagrant installation. This is pretty easy:
vagrant up
Alternativly if you would like to make use of Vagrant Cloud you can simply run the following.
vagrant init friendsofcake/cakephp-baking
It may take a bit to download the Vagrant box, but once that is done, you will be prompted for your laptop password. This is so we can properly expose the IP of the vagrant instance to your machine. Type in your password and let it continue running.
You can grab a coffee or go out for a beer at this point. Takes about half an hour to an hour, depending upon your internet connection and laptop resources.
Of note is that typing
vagrant sshwhile your vagrant instance is up will ssh onto the instance so you can perform commands directly on it. For example, it might be useful to manually install some service, or run a script within the repository.
Once it is done, browse to
http://192.168.13.37/in your browser, and you should have some sort of
It works!page! At this point you can set your virtualhosts to point at the instance for maximum win.
When you want to use vagrant instance for a development environment, you can create an
appdirectory with the contents of your application. Within the vm, this would be an example of your directory structure:
|-/vagrant/app | |-/vagrant/app/bin | |-/vagrant/app/config | |-/vagrant/app/logs | |-/vagrant/app/plugins | |-/vagrant/app/src | |-/vagrant/app/src/Console | |-/vagrant/app/src/Controller | |-/vagrant/app/src/Model | |-/vagrant/app/src/Shell | |-/vagrant/app/src/Template | |-/vagrant/app/src/View |-/vagrant/app/tests |-/vagrant/app/tmp |-/vagrant/app/vendor |-/vagrant/app/webroot
Anything in
app/webroot/index.phpwill be served up, and all other
index.phpfiles ignored.
Note, we recommend using the FriendsOfCake/app-template for new applications.
If you want to access the site using a custom domain name, edit your
/etc/hostsfile to have the following line:
192.168.13.37 www.app.test app.test
If you are the root user on your box, you can do something like:
echo "192.168.13.37 www.app.test app.test" >> "/etc/hosts"
MySQL is available at
192.168.13.37:3306with either of the following credentials:
root:bananas
user:password
Postgres is available at
192.168.13.37:5432with either of the following credentials:
postgres:password
username:password
If you want to use multiple repositories with this Vagrant setup, simply create an
appsdirectory in the root of this repo:
cd path/to/vagrant-chef mkdir -p apps
Next, copy your CakePHP repository to the
appsdirectory. For instance, if you want to have a
blogproject, your directory structure would be similar to the following:
|-/vagrant/apps | |-/vagrant/apps/blog | |-/vagrant/apps/blog/webroot
This application will be automatically available as
blog.test. Updating your hosts
/etc/hostsentry to include this will allow you to access it in a browser:
echo "192.168.13.37 www.app.test app.test blog.test" >> "/etc/hosts"
Using this method, you can host as many applications within a single VM instance as desired.
You normally wont want to have the instance running full time. To pause it, simply perform the following in the command line:
vagrant suspend
You will no longer be able to access the instance after doing this. To continue working, issue the following command:
vagrant resume
You can also use
vagrant haltand
vagrant upfor shutting down and booting the virtual machine.
Running
vagrant provisionwill reprovision the instance. You won't normally need to do the things in the Installation section, but this will ensure your setup is as up-to-date as possible.
If there are any updates to the vagrant setup, such as a new feature, new site hosted within, or new service, simply do the following in a terminal:
git pull origin master vagrant reload --provision
We're sad to see you leave your work behind, but removing the virtual machine form your system isn't hard. Simply execute this command within the folder where
Vagrantfileis located:
vagrant destroy
This will destroy your vagrant installation, and you can proceed to remove the project folder from your computer.
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