Vagrant Based LEMP

This is a LEMP vagrant environment for development. LEMP is short for Linux + Nginx + MySQL + PHP. In the past this was tailored to Wordpress development, I have made it more generic so it can be used for anything that needs PHP and MySQL. In the future I am probably going to throw MongoDB in here as well.

Requirements

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant

Setup

Install VirtualBox

Typical .dmg installer. Just follow the directions. You can get the installer from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.

Install Vagrant

Typical .dmg installer. Just follow the directions. You can get the installer from http://downloads.vagrantup.com

Create and setup the virtual machine.

The virtual machine, which VirtualBox will host, must always be started from the vagrant-lemp/vagrant/env directory. There is a shell script you need to run just once. My Chef-fu is not good enough to get all of this automated with Chef Solo.

$ cd vagrant-lemp/vagrant/env
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh
$ sudo dev/setup/scripts/vmsetup.sh

Restart the vm

$ exit
$ vagrant reload

You can go to http://localhost:8080/phpinfo.php to verify it is working.

Development process

• Make your changes in vagrant-lemp/dev for whatever you are doing. This is shared in the vm in ~/dev as well.

• Start up your vm with vagrant up in the vagrant-lemp/vagrant/env directory.

• View your environment in your browser at http://localhost:8080

The Virtual Machine

Ubuntu

$ uname -a
Linux precise32 3.2.0-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 22:19:09 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Nginx

$ nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.1.19

PHP

$ php --version
PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.7 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Jul 15 2013 18:10:56) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2010, by Derick Rethans

MySQL

$ mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.32, for debian-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 6.2

Useful Info

• How to restart nginx: $ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
• How to restart PHP5-FPM: $ sudo /etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart
• php.ini location: /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
• How to enable errors to show: In /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini set display_errors = On
• How to enable xdebug html error format: In /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini set html_errors = On
• MySQL admin username and password is root