Vagrant CentOS 6.5 (x86_64) LAMP+

This is my base dev setup. Includes PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Python and phpMyAdmin

Install VirtualBox

https://www.virtualbox.org/

Install Vagrant (Requires 1.5+ for Vagrant Cloud)

http://www.vagrantup.com/

Setup a New Vagrant VM

We'll be using my shared box on Vagrant Cloud. Vagrant will download the box and initialize your vagrant directory, including a shiny new Vagrantfile

mkdir your-project-dir && cd your-project-dir
vagrant init kevindeleon/centos65-x86_64-LAMP
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

Starting Apache and MySQL

While SSH'd into your Vagrant VM:

sudo service httpd start
sudo service mysqld start

A Few Vagrantfile Tweaks I Prefer

If you would like to be able to view content in your host machine's browser, I recommend setting your 'forwarded_port' in your Vagrantfile:

config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080

I also create a sub-folder on my host machine (in the initialized vagrant directory) called 'html' and use the 'synced_folder' config in my Vagrantfile to sync it with '/var/www/html' on the guest machine.

config.vm.synced_folder "html", "/var/www/html"

So, my folder structure on my host machine looks something like:

initialized-vagrant-folder/
--.vagrant/
--html/
--Vagrantfile

Remember, if you make changes to your Vagrantfile while your VM is running, you will need to issue the following command:

vagrant reload

After reloading your Vagrant box, start your services (Apache and MySQL) on your Vagrant box and you should be able to go to http://localhost:8080 and see your html/php in your web root. PhpMyAdmin is located at http://localhost:8080/phpMyAdmin/ (if you followed the port forwarding instructions above...if you set it to something other than 8080, you would obviously substitute that).

A few things:

• Your web root is /var/www/html (where your html/php files go)
• I made changes to the phpMyAdmin config so that IPs other than 127.0.0.1 could connect. If you would like that security measure turned back on, simply replace /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf with /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf.OrigBak
• Currently MySQL is using 'root' as the root password. You may want to change that.

That's it! Enjoy your new dev environment.