Simple Development Environment for LAMP Applications

This is a scaffold for a simple environment that you can put on any laptop to do LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, Php) stack development.

To set up your environment (Windows, MacOS, or Linux), install:

• VirtualBox (with Guest Extensions): https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

• Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

• Atom (our favorite editor): https://atom.io/

Add your favorite atom packages:

apm install language-puppet markdown-preview-plus sort-lines

Before you configure your virtual LAMP machine, you need to pick some passwords for its database. Read the file secrets_example.yaml for instructions.

To create a fresh virtual machine:

% vagrant up

You may want to add the hostname and ip address listed in the Vagrantfile to your local /etc/hosts file (no one else on your network will see it, so it doesn't have to be unique. But it must be on its own subnet).

# echo '192.168.10.10 dev.example.com' >> /etc/hosts

Then, in your browser, you can view http://dev.example.com/myphpapp.