VCCW with 'vagrant up' or 'vagrant up --provision' do not work on a Mac

[seffw]

Operating System: Mac OS
Vagrant Version: Latest (12 Sept, 2020)
Virtual Box Version: Latest

I normally love discovering and trying new things, but this has been a mess from the start. I knew I should have bailed after seeing install instructions that just didn't care ("download the zip" - And what? ).

Anyway, after trial and error, figure out I needed to create a directory of my choose, unzip, put the folder contents in that new directory, and then all look good.

Except after all that, on a Mac, it doesn't work.

After using 'vagrant box add vccw-team/xenial64' , If I run vagrant up, I'm told I need to run vagrant provision or vagrant up --provision

None of those work. Nothing is started, no local server is available.

On the first run I had it working, but then the connection went for no apparent reason while I was navigating Wordpress admin. After that, it was the runaround of the 3 commands above.

Before I give up on this, is there any sensible way to make this work on a Mac?

I'm not looking for vagrant destroy then vagrant up. Not only does that not work, but it takes ages and ends up at the same place.

It's clear this is a big issue. You look aroung and see the questions, but there are not solutions out there that I have found. Just vague references to needing to use --provision, but that actually doesn't work (no local server is run). Lets gets some proper Mac instructions out there and save this huge time-waste for those new to Vagrant.

If there's any chance I can figure this out soon, I'll help write some tutorial. I absolutely hate the time that these things waste for other people.

[adamjgriffith]

Hi @seffw, I've been using VCCW on OSX for a long time with no major issues.

Here are the steps I take in settings up a new VCCW repository:

1. Download and Extract VCCW.zip
2. Move and rename to a folder of your choosing. I will use ~/Projects/wordpress
3. Copy ~/Projects/wordpress/provision/default.yml to ~/Projects/wordpress/site.yml
4. Edit the ~/Projects/wordpress/site.yml
   1. I normally just update hostname and leave the rest
5. Run vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
6. Run vagrant box add vccw-team/xenial64
7. Run vagrant up

Now you can use vagrant halt and vagrant up as you like. If you change site.yml you must run vagrant up --provision.