Before moving ahead with this starter environment you'll need to have a few things installed on your computer:
- VirtualBox - Free tool that allows you to run virtual machines on your computer.
- Vagrant - Free tool that automates the creation of development environments within a virtual machine.
Once you've installed VirtualBox and Vagrant on your computer you're ready to continue:
- Open a command-line (Terminal on Mac, PowerShell or Git Bash on Windows)
- cd into this project's root folder
- Run
vagrant up - Go grab a coffee, it will take a few minutes
- Once it completes you'll need to edit your computer's
hostsfile to point fictional-university.test to our virtual machine. On Windows your host file lives in C/Windows/System32/Drivers/etc on Mac your hosts file lives in /etc - Add this line at the bottom of your hosts file:
192.168.56.101 fictional-university.test - Now you can visit fictional-university.test in any browser. The root of this project is
/fictional-university/app
An initial database is automatically created for you.
Database name: dbname
Database user: dbuser
User Password: 123
Database hostname: localhost
This box does not include PhpMyAdmin. Instead I recommend using Seqeul Pro (on Mac) and HeidiSQL (on Windows). Here are the settings you can use to connect.
MySQL Host: 127.0.0.1
Username: dbuser
Password: 123
SSH Host: 192.168.56.101
SSH User: vagrant
SSH Key: point towards the file that lives in our project folder under puphpet/files/dot/ssh/id_rsa
That's technically all you need to get your LAMP development environment up and running. However, my setup also leverages a few workflow tools. If you'd like to take full advantage of my setup you'll also want to install:
- Node & NPM - Node is a free tool that can run JavaScript outside the context of a web browser.
- webpack - Free tool that bundles up multiple files.
- Gulp - Free task-runner tool. No longer the cool kid on the block (webpack owns that title now) but I still prefer Gulp for generic task running and non-bundle'ish tasks.