Vagrant Box ActiveSocial - BCV FE team

Vagrant Box with PHP56/Postgres

This is a minimalistic PHP57/Postgres vagrant box meant to be used by the FE, so it might not be fully featured for all the projects requirements. However, it can be twaked to include anything else the team might need that doesn't require a lot of effort. The goal is to jumpstart the development proccess for FE'ends if they strictly need something that the staging server can't provide. e.g generating the reset password link to be used locally.

It can only be used in Mac right now, but with some work it can work in Windows also.

Start by running bash init.sh within the main directory after cloning, this creates a new directory in ~/.Homestead56. Setup this box's Homestead file at ~/.Homestead56/Homestead.yaml

Every change to the Homestead.yaml file must be followed by a vagrant provision

For more information on how to setup homestead official documentation is located here.

Vagrant/Server Steps

1. Install Virtual Box and Vagrant if not already installed.

2. Git clone https://github.com/BCVSocial/homestead56.git

3. cd homestead56

4. vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

5. edit your /etc/hosts file and add the following entry:

  127.0.0.1 activesocial.bcv.dev  

6. Check ~/.Homestead56/Homestead.yaml to see if it matches your local setup of the project.

       folders:
         - map: ~/BCVSocial
         to: /home/vagrant/BCVSocial
         type: nfs
   
       sites:
        - map: activesocial.bcv.dev ## Important, this is one of the allowed hostnames inside web/app_dev.php file.
        to: /home/vagrant/BCVSocial/ActiveSocial/web
        type: symfony
   

7. bash init.sh && vagrant up

8. vagrant provision & vagrant reload

9. Finally, if you try and run vagrant ssh you should be able to ssh into the virtual machine, to continue with the symfony setup.

10. login to postgres to check where the pg_hba.conf file is:    * psql -U homestead -h localhost password is secret    * SHOW hba_file; Should be /etc/postgresql/9.4/main/pg_hba.conf

11. Edit the file and look for the following lines:

        host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            md5
    
        host    all             PC             127.0.0.1/32             md5
    
        host    all             all             ::1/128                 md5
    

   * Change all ocurrences of md5 to trust

12. Run sudo service postgresql restart    

Symfony Steps

1. cd into the main project ActiveSocial and run composer install wait, follow instructions, wait some more.

2. php app/console doctrine:database:create

3. php app/console doctrine:schema:update --force

4. php app/console hautelook_alice:doctrine:fixtures:load

After following these steps you should have a decent vagrant/symfony setup, remember to update your config.js file:

    export const serverUrl = 'http://activesocial.bcv.dev:8000/app_dev.php';
    

TODO

Improve performance, it's a little slow, see http://www.whitewashing.de/2013/08/19/speedup_symfony2_on_vagrant_boxes.html

Improvements ?

Go ahead =)

Problems:

Vagrant problem

NFS is reporting that your exports file is invalid. Vagrant does
this check before making any changes to the file. Please correct
the issues below and execute "vagrant reload":

Run:

sudo rm /etc/exports
sudo touch /etc/exports

vagrant halt
vagrant up --provision

Chaning Server App Url

If you need to update the app url for symfony, edit config/parameters.yaml inside the app directory. After you have done that, from roo directory run: php app/console cache:clear --env=dev