Joomlatools Vagrant automates the setup of a Joomla development environment. It is capable of running a full featured LAMP stack with a single command so that you can start working on your Joomla projects quickly.
Install VirtualBox
Install Vagrant
Run the following commands in a folder of your choice:
vagrant init joomlatools/box
Only for Ubuntu users - start the NFS service to be able to mount directories:
sudo service nfs-kernel-server start
Start the box:
vagrant up
This will download the Vagrant box and get it running.
Add the following line into your hosts file (/etc/hosts on Linux and MacOS, for other operating systems see here)
33.33.33.58 joomla.box webgrind.joomla.box phpmyadmin.joomla.box
The dashboard is now available at joomla.box
There will be two new folders created called www
and Projects
. These folders act as shared folders between your host computer and the box.
Once you have installed the box as described above, SSH into the box:
vagrant ssh
Create your first Joomla website with this command:
joomla site:create mysite
Your new site is available at joomla.box/mysite. You can login using the credentials admin
/ admin
.
You can now symlink and install your custom extensions into the site, manage PHP versions and much more. Head over to our documentation pages to learn more about the box and its possibilities.
When new versions of the box are released you can update your local machine by executing:
vagrant box update
Note that updating the box will not update an already-running Vagrant machine. To reflect the changes in the box, you will have to destroy (vagrant destroy
) and bring back up the Vagrant machine (vagrant up
).
For more details refer to our FAQ.
Open source is all about collaboration, so there will be times you will want to share your work with others. Luckily for you, we've pre-configured ngrok to run within the vagrant box.
We've also created a new box command box share
to help you share your websites.
You can also share access to the terminal via SSH. There are two methods:
tmate
command on the box and share the resulting ssh connection string. If you want to make changes to the box's infrastructure, you can do so by building the box from scratch. Follow these steps to get started:
Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/joomlatools/joomlatools-vagrant.git
Install required Vagrant plugins
vagrant plugin install vagrant-puppet-install
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
Install dependencies with bundler:
bundle install
Go to the repository folder and build the box:
cd joomlatools-vagrant
vagrant up
You can now edit the Puppet configuration. To apply your changes, provision the box again:
vagrant provision
We use Packer to automatically build the box. To start a build, follow these steps:
Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/joomlatools/joomlatools-vagrant.git
Install dependencies with bundler:
bundle install
Download the required Puppet modules using librarian-puppet:
cd puppet
librarian-puppet install --path modules/common/
Install Packer
Now edit the packer.json
file. Look for the current version and increase the version number.
The version number is defined in the variables section and can be found at the top of the file. It looks like this:
Also increase the $box_version
variable in puppet/manifests/default.pp
and update the changelog.
Commit the change and push back to GitHub.
Instruct packer to start the build:
packer build -on-error=ask packer.json
Once finished a joomlatools-0.0.0.box
file will be created with the correct version number. Upload it to Vagrant Cloud to make it available to everyone else.
After publishing the new version, make sure to update the commands on the Joomlatools Developer site (see wiki) and update the phpmanager dependency installation script.
tests
directory: cd tests/
serverspec
with bundle install
bundle exec rake spec
Note: to run on the box, run BACKEND=exec bundle exec rake spec
The box is a very complex piece of technology, based on many different open source tools and libraries many of which are far beyond our capabilities and understanding.
We therefore deliberately keep the Issues section on this specific Github repo closed for such questions as we want to encourage people to submit code to add features or fix bugs by opening up Pull Requests instead of report bug or problems through Issues.
If you do have a problem running the box please use either our forum or chat room to get in touch with us and we are most happy to try and help you.
Joomlatools Box is an open source, community-driven project. Contributions are welcome from everyone. We have contributing guidelines to help you get started.
See the list of contributors.
Joomlatools Vagrant box is free and open-source software licensed under the MPLv2 license.
Keep track of development and community news.