outwebbed / dreambox_boltcms

A Vagrant environment based on DreamHost's shared hosting w/ Bolt CMS Installed

DreamBox

Recreates the DreamHost shared hosting environment as a Vagrant box.

This project repo is for building the Dreambox base box. To use this box in a project, see the usage instructions below.

Features

• Ubuntu - 12.04 LTS
• PHP - 5.6.10
• Apache - 2.2.22 (CGI/FastCGI)
• MySQL - 5.5.40

Python and Ruby environments are not set up. Contributions are welcome and appreciated.

Usage

Initialize a new project using this box by running the following commands:

vagrant init goodguyry/dreambox
vagrant up

To use this box with an existing project, use the following in your Vagrantfile:

config.vm.box = "goodguyry/dreambox"
config.vm.box_url = "https://atlas.hashicorp.com/goodguyry/boxes/dreambox"

User Setup

DreamBox is meant to replicate both the hosting environment and the shared hosting setup (the full path to the web root). The user_setup script is provided to create the user directory and link the project root in your Vagrant sync folder to your new web root.

The user_setup script should be automated as part of your provisioning. Pass environment variables to the provisioner as follows, changing the variable values to reflect your needs.

  # Environment variables for automating user_setup
  user_vars = {
    "DREAMBOX_USER_NAME" => "db_user", # DreamHost username
    "DREAMBOX_SITE_ROOT" => "dreambox.com", # Site root directory
    "DREAMBOX_PROJECT_DIR" => "/web" # Relative to project root
  }

  # Runs user_setup
  config.vm.provision "shell",
    inline: "/bin/bash /usr/local/bin/user_setup",
    # Pass user_setup ENV variables to this script
    :env => user_vars

Alternatively, if you'd rather not commit this information to a public repo, run user_setup from within the VM and follow the prompts.

vagrant up
vagrant ssh
sudo user_setup

MySQL Setup (Optional)

To set a password for the root mysql user, run mysql_secure_installation from within the VM.

vagrant up
vagrant ssh
mysql_secure_installation

References

• http://phpinfo.dreamhosters.com/ (outdated)
• http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Supported_and_unsupported_technologies

Changelog

v0.1.0

Initial release, based on https://github.com/goodguyry/dreambox