Vagrant LAMP server

22 September, 2014

On a previous post I explained how to start using a Vagrant Box. In this post I’d like to expand that explanation by setting up a LAMP server.

Place yourself in the Vagrant working directory. Following my last explanation it should be:

$HOME/Development/Box/

Edit the Vagrantfile and uncomment/add these lines:

config.vm.provision :shell, :path => "vagrant-bootstrap.sh" ## provisioning file with instructions
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 8002, guest: 80, auto_correct: true ## port forwarding 80 >> 8002

Next create/edit the “vagrant-bootstrap.sh” with “vagrant” as main password for the configuration:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

apt-get update
apt-get -y upgrade

apt-get install -y apache2
rm -rf /var/www
ln -fs /vagrant /var/www

apt-get install -y git subversion curl vim screen puppet
apt-get install -y lynx links links2

apt-get install -y php5-cli php5-curl php5-mcrypt php5-gd
mv -i /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/
php5enmod mcrypt

MYSQL_PASSWORD="vagrant"
PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD="vagrant"

echo "mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server/root_password password $MYSQL_PASSWORD" | debconf-set-selections
echo "mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server/root_password_again password $MYSQL_PASSWORD" | debconf-set-selections

apt-get -y install mysql-client mysql-server

echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/dbconfig-install boolean false' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/reconfigure-webserver multiselect apache2' | debconf-set-selections

echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/app-password-confirm password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/mysql/admin-pass password $MYSQL_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/password-confirm password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/setup-password password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/database-type select mysql' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/mysql/app-pass password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections

echo 'dbconfig-common dbconfig-common/mysql/app-pass password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'dbconfig-common dbconfig-common/mysql/app-pass password' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'dbconfig-common dbconfig-common/password-confirm password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'dbconfig-common dbconfig-common/app-password-confirm password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'dbconfig-common dbconfig-common/app-password-confirm password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'dbconfig-common dbconfig-common/password-confirm password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections

apt-get -y install phpmyadmin

Once these two files are edited, we can call our Box with next command:

$ vagrant reload --provision

You should see the Box activating and processing the instructions from the “vagrant-bootstrap.sh”. Once the operation is finished we can see our web server running by opening a browser and typing http://localhost:8002. You will see any files in our working folder as it is mapped. This way we can place our index.php file in the folder and start our PHP project

http://localhost:8002 >>>> $HOME/Development/Box/

Just remember that we can work locally with that folder; it can be “gitted” and edited with our prefered IDE tool. Code happily!

For more advanced instructions you can add these lines to automatically create a database (called “ado” with password “ado”) for us:

echo "CREATE DATABASE ado;" | mysql -u root -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD
echo "CREATE USER 'ado'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'ado';" | mysql -u root -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD
echo "GRANT ALL ON ado.* TO 'ado'@'localhost';" | mysql -u root -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD
echo "GRANT CREATE ON ado.* TO 'ado'@'localhost';" | mysql -u root -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD
echo "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" | mysql -u root -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD

Cheat sheet: Advanced bootstrap configuration commands for provisioning a LAMP server (Download)

#!/usr/bin/env bash

apt-get update
apt-get -y upgrade

apt-get install -y apache2
rm -rf /var/www
ln -fs /vagrant /var/www

apt-get install -y git subversion curl vim screen puppet
apt-get install -y lynx links links2

apt-get install -y php5-cli php5-curl php5-mcrypt php5-gd
mv -i /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/
php5enmod mcrypt

MYSQL_PASSWORD="vagrant"
PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD="vagrant"

echo "mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server/root_password password $MYSQL_PASSWORD" | debconf-set-selections
echo "mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server/root_password_again password $MYSQL_PASSWORD" | debconf-set-selections

apt-get -y install mysql-client mysql-server

echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/dbconfig-install boolean false' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/reconfigure-webserver multiselect apache2' | debconf-set-selections

echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/app-password-confirm password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/mysql/admin-pass password $MYSQL_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/password-confirm password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/setup-password password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/database-type select mysql' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/mysql/app-pass password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections

echo 'dbconfig-common dbconfig-common/mysql/app-pass password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'dbconfig-common dbconfig-common/mysql/app-pass password' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'dbconfig-common dbconfig-common/password-confirm password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'dbconfig-common dbconfig-common/app-password-confirm password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'dbconfig-common dbconfig-common/app-password-confirm password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections
echo 'dbconfig-common dbconfig-common/password-confirm password $PHPMYADMIN_PASSWORD' | debconf-set-selections

apt-get -y install phpmyadmin


## creating database ado with password ado
echo "CREATE DATABASE ado;" | mysql -u root -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD
echo "CREATE USER 'ado'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'ado';" | mysql -u root -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD
echo "GRANT ALL ON ado.* TO 'ado'@'localhost';" | mysql -u root -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD
echo "GRANT CREATE ON ado.* TO 'ado'@'localhost';" | mysql -u root -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD
echo "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" | mysql -u root -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD