Grouptopics w/ Vagrant

A basic Ubuntu 10.04 Vagrant setup for Grouptopics and PHP 5.4.

Requirements

• VirtualBox - Free virtualization software Downloads
• Vagrant - Tool for working with virtualbox images Vagrant Home, click on 'download now link'
• Git - Source Control Management Downloads

Quick Start - Using Vagrant

You can set up a development virtual machine running Grouptopics by following these simple instructions.

1. Install requirements. (Note: these are not required by joind.in itself, but are required for this quick start guide.)

   • VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) (versions 4.0 and 4.1 are currently supported)
   • Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org/)
   • Vagrant (http://vagrantup.com/)

2. Clone repository to any location and fetch required submodules (containing Puppet manifests).

    git clone https://github.com/sdphp/grouptopics.org
    cd grouptopics
   

3. Start the process by running Vagrant.

    vagrant up
   

4. Add hostname to /etc/hosts.

    echo "127.0.0.1 dev.gt " | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
   

5. Browse to the newly provisioned development copy of joind.in.

    open http://dev.gt:8080
   

Using Vagrant

Vagrant is very well documented but here are a few common commands:

• vagrant up starts the virtual machine and provisions it
• vagrant suspend will essentially put the machine to 'sleep' with vagrant resume waking it back up
• vagrant halt attempts a graceful shutdown of the machine and will need to be brought back with vagrant up
• vagrant ssh gives you shell access to the virtual machine

Virtual Machine Specifications

• OS - Ubuntu 10.04
• Apache - 2.2.22
• PHP - 5.3.2
• MySQL - 5.5.28

Phpmyadmin is available http://dev.gt:8080/phpmyadmin/. User root, Password root