DevBox

Introduction

DevBox provides a PHP development environment using Vagrant and VirtualBox. The development VM created is built on Ubuntu with Apache, Nginx, PHP and MySQL. The VM can be configured to use different versions of Ubuntu, PHP and MySQL. It can also be configured to use either Apache or Nginx.

Configuration

DevBox can be configured using the config.yaml configuration file.

VM

By default, the name for the VM is 'devbox', this can be changed by adding the name property. The default hostname for the VM is also 'devbox', this can be changed by adding the hostname property.

name: vmname
hostname: vmhostname

Networks

By default, DevBox will create a private network with an automatically assigned IP address. Use ifconfig on the VM to determine the IP address. To create a bridged (public) network, add a networks array with a type property of bridged.

networks:
    - type: bridged

A static IP address for the VM can also be given by adding an ip property and assigning an address from the reserved private address space.

networks:
    - type: private
      ip: "192.168.178.40"

networks:
    - type: bridged
      ip: "192.168.178.40"

By default, DevBox will forward ports 80 and 3306 on the guest machine to ports 8000 and 33060 on the host. To forward additional ports, add a ports array with guest and host properties set to the ports you want to forward.

ports:
    - guest: 443
      host: 44300

Folders

By default, DevBox will share your project folder . with the /vagrant folder on the guest machine. To share additional folders with the guest machine map the host folder to the guest folder in the folders array.

folders:
    - map: ~/code
      to: /vagrant/code

To use NFS for a shared folder, add the type property.

folders:
    - map: ~/code
      to: /vagrant/code
      type: nfs

Ubuntu

By default, DevBox uses Ubuntu 16.04. To use a different version, add the ubuntu property. Supported versions are 14.04 and 16.04.

ubuntu: "14.04"

Webserver

By default, DevBox uses Nginx as the web server. To use a different web server, add the webserver property. Supported servers are nginx and apache.

webserver: apache

PHP

The VM includes the following PHP modules:

• cli
• curl
• fpm
• mysql
• xdebug

By default, DevBox uses PHP 7.2. To use a different version for PHP CLI, add the php-cli property. Supported versions are 5.6, 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2.

php-cli: "5.6"

Note: PHP version 5.5 is also supported for legacy systems. Use 5 as the php-cli property.

Additional Packages

If you require additional PHP modules or any other Ubuntu packages then they can be added to the apt-packages array as follows:

apt-packages:
    - php7.0-gd
    - php7.1-mbstring
    - php7.2-xml

Note: Additional packages are installed via Ubuntu's Advanced Packaging Tool (APT)

Website

You can set up multiple sites by mapping a url to a root folder on the VM. Sites are configured in the sites array. The url is set via the url property and the root folder set via the root property.

sites:
    - url: site1.test
      root: /path/to/root/folder/on/vm
    - url: site2.test
      root: /path/to/root/folder/on/vm

By default, DevBox uses PHP 7.2. To use a different version for a site, add the php property. Supported versions are 5.6, 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2.

sites:
    - url: site1.test
      root: /path/to/root/folder/on/vm
      php: "7.0"
    - url: site2.test
      root: /path/to/root/folder/on/vm
      php: "7.1"

Note: PHP version 5.5 is also supported for legacy systems. Add 5 to the php sites property.

The url must be added to your machines hosts file. Example:

192.168.22.18   site1.test
192.168.22.18   site2.test

A self-signed SSL certificate is created for each site, so sites can be accessed via HTTP and HTTPS.

MySQL

By default, DevBox uses MySQL 5.7. To install an alternative version, add the mysql property. Supported versions are 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7.

mysql: "5.5"

Note: These alternative versions are only supported with Ubuntu 14.04.

Databases

You can create multiple MySQL databases by adding the name for the database to the databases array.

databases:
    - name: dbname1
    - name: dbname2

The default MySQL root user's password is secret. As well as the default root user a specific user is created for each database. The default username for this specific user is damianlewis with the password secret. To change this, add the user and password properties to the database array.

databases:
    - name: dbname1
      user: user1
      password: secret
    - name: dbname2
      user: tester
      password: secret

Composer

Composer is included with DevBox. When configuring the VM you can include Composer packages to install globally.

composer-packages:
    - laravel/envoy

Post provisioning

Use the post file to run any further provisions that you require for your VM.

Bash aliases

A number of default bash aliases are created for the VM. These can be found in the aliases file. Add any further aliases you require to this file before creating the VM.

Other software included

• Git
• NVM and Node
• Yarn