Silverstripe Vagrant Development Machine

IMPORTANT: THIS SET-UP WAS CREATED ONLY FOR DEVELOPMENT, AND IS NOT SUITABLE FOR A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT!

A Vagrant/VirtualBox dev machine set-up for Silverstripe development, using the popular ubuntu/xenial Vagrant box.

This set-up was created on a Windows 10 host machine, with VirtualBox v5.1.22, Vagrant v1.9.5, and Git Bash. If you have a different host O.S (e.g. a Linux distro), feel free to contribute :).

Credit goes to Nicolaas Thiemen Francken from Sunny Side Up Web Development for an excellent well-documented set-up, and also to the following GitHub gists:

Step 1

Clone this repository to your desired location (e.g. C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Desktop).

Step 2

Go into the new cloned folder, then right click "Git Bash Here".

Step 3

You should now be in a folder as below:

C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Desktop\silverstripe-vagrant-dev-machine

Enter vagrant up --provision to begin creating and provisioning your machine. This can take around 10 to 15 minutes, depending on your host machine's resources.

Step 4

Once your machine has been created and provisioned, put the following entries into your Windows hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts):

127.0.0.1:8080 localhost

127.0.0.1:8080/phpmyadmin/ phpmyadmin.localhost

127.0.0.1:8080 server-default.localhost

You can access the above sites in your browser like so:

You can also access the Silverstripe test project by visiting http://test.localhost:8080.

Step 5

To transfer files from your host machine to the newly-created guest machine via SFTP (e.g. with FileZilla), use the following details:

Host: 127.0.0.1

Username: silverstripedev

Password: silverstripe

Port: 2222

Default directory upon SFTP login is /var/www

Step 6

To access phpMyAdmin, navigate to http://phpmyadmin.localhost:8080 in your browser, and use the following credentials:

Username: ubuntu
Password: ubuntu

Step 7

To see server information (as displayed via PHP's 'phpinfo()' function), navigate to http://server-default.localhost:8080.

If you were experimenting with the set-up and broke the Vagrant machine, never fear! All you need to do is enter the following command to recreate said machine:

vagrant halt && vagrant destroy && vagrant up --provision

Want to help contribute and improve this set-up? Feel free to fork this repository and submit a push request. If you would like to adapt this for a Linux host machine, let me know and I'll create branches specific to the Linux distro and version.