Demo/playground server with a LAMP stack

This is a demo/playground machine set up with Vagrant and Ansible. It contains a CentOS VM with a LAMP stack, and Wordpress.

It is useful for showing how Ansible works, or as a test-environment for developing in PHP.

Dependencies

The setup is OS independent, as long as you have the following tools installed:

• Git (on Windows, also install Git Bash)
• VirtualBox, including the "Extension pack"
• Vagrant
• Optionally, Ansible (on supported platforms)

Getting started

Open a Bash shell (Git Bash on Windows), go to a suitable directory to store this project and issue the following commands:

git clone --config core.autocrlf=input https://github.com/bertvv/lampstack
cd lampstack
ansible-galaxy install -r ansible/requirements.yml

Warning On Windows, it is essential that you include the setting core.autocrlf=input when cloning. If you forget, all files will get DOS line endings, and the setup will fail.

Also, on Windows, where you don't have the ansible-galaxy command, run this script instead to install the necessary roles:

./scripts/role-deps.sh

And finally, start the VM with:

vagrant up

The VM will be attached to VirtualBox's default Host-only network adapter and has a static IP address, 192.168.56.77.

To shut down the VM, execute vagrant halt. Start it again with vagrant up. If you made a mistake and the VM is broken, do

vagrant destroy -f
vagrant up

Accessing the virtual machine

• To start using the Wordpress site, surf to http://192.168.56.84/wordpress/
• PHP code dropped in the www/ directory is immediately visible on the website at http://192.168.56.84/
• To get shell access via ssh, do
  • vagrant ssh (no password)
  • or ssh vagrant@192.168.56.84 (password vagrant)
  • prepend all commands that need root privileges with sudo (no password required)
• To access the Cockpit monitoring dashboard, surf to https://192.168.56.84:9090/ and log in with user name vagrant and password vagrant.