Goal

Migerate my development enrioment to vagrant managed virtual box.

vagrant

nfs

It is said that common shared folder will be very slow. I decided to use NFS although I didn’t measure the difference myself…

I followed the instructions here.

Put it simply, we need to do two things: set private networks, set share folder as nfs. Configure file is as belows: {% highlight ruby %}

set network as dhcp

config.vm.network “private_network”, type: “dhcp”

set shared folder, and make type nfs

config.vm.synced_folder “../Develop/”, “/develop”, type: “nfs” {% endhighlight %} The bad thing is that, after nfs is set, we will be prompted with password everytime. Vagrant document gives the way to avoid this.

port forwarding

{% highlight ruby %} config.vm.network “forwarded_port”, guest: 8080, host: 1234 config.vm.network “forwarded_port”, guest: 8081, host: 1235 {% endhighlight %} The good part of vagrant is that, when port conficts it will explictly complains which is far better than virutal box.

provisioning

Have’t investigate this yet..

struggle for install

install recent repository

use this command: rpm -Uvh http://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm

update php version from 5.3 to 5.4

somehow the default php version in CentOS6 is 5.3, which doesn’t accomendate my project. So I need to update php version with:

yum install yum-plugin-replace
yum replace php-common --replace-with=php54w-common

As a result, this step brings lots of unexpected problems.

install gcc, apache, mysql

install redis and memcached

yum install redis memcached
yum install php54w-memcache (not php-memcache!)

when I tried to install php54w-redis, I found out that there was no such package. So I had to install it from source code phpredis…

start my project

I encountered following problems:

• white page: My project is based on CodeIgniter. The werid part of the framework is that, its hides all the error message when doing mysql connect with @. As a result, it took me lots of time to find out that reason is simply mysql server didn’t started.
• no error log: it turns out the apache didn’t have the write permission to the log folder