Setting Up a CentOS 6.7 Development Environment with Vagrant

#apache #centos #vagrant

This article was originally published on bmf-tech.com.

Overview

Recently, when I rebuilt my Box, I thought, "I should properly document the Vagrant development environment workflow," so I decided to summarize it. There is a similar workflow memo in the repository.

github - bmf-san/vagrant-development-workflow

Prerequisites

The following applications should be installed on the host machine (Mac):

Environment

Host Machine (Mac)

macOS Sierra v10.12.2

Virtual Environment

CentOS 6.7

Setup Procedure

Create a Vagrantfile in the development environment directory
- vagrant init
Obtain a Box template and create a Box
- vagrant box add BOX_NAME /path/to/box/url
- Specify any name for BOX_NAME
- Download the Box from Vagrantbox.es
- Use CentOS 6.7
Install vagrant-hostupdater
- vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
- Hosts - A useful app for GUI management of hosts on the host machine (Mac)
Edit the Vagrantfile
- Set Box Name
- Configure Network
- Configure Synced Folder
- Configure Provider (to improve Vagrant performance)
- Configure Host Updater
- Configure xdebug (optional)

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  # Box Name
  config.vm.box = "centos6.7"

  # Network
  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10"

  # Synced Folder
  config.vm.synced_folder "/path/to/directory", "/var/www/html",
    :owner => "apache",
    :group => "apache",
    :mount_options => ["dmode=775,fmode=664"]

  # Provider(Optional)
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
        vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--paravirtprovider", "kvm"]
  end

  # Host Updater
  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.33.10"
  config.vm.hostname = "localdev"
  config.hostsupdater.aliases = ["localdev-hoge"]

  # xdebug(Optional)
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 3000, guest: 3000
end

Start and connect to Vagrant
- vagrant up - Start
- vagrant ssh - SSH connection
- vagrant reload - Restart
- vagrant halt - Stop
- vagrant provision - Provisioning (update host)
Install Apache
- yum install httpd - Install Apache
- service httpd start - Start server
- chkconfig httpd on - Set to start automatically on login
Configure Apache
- cd /etc/httpd/conf.d
- vim localdev-hoge.conf - Create a configuration file for each host (set to access with localdev-hoge)

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName localdev-hoge
  ServerAdmin localhost
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/path/to/directory

  <Directory "/var/www/html/path/to/directory">
    AllowOverride All
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

service httpd restart - Restart server to apply settings

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