Magical WordPress Development with Vagrant

Chris Olbekson !

WordPress Developer Twitter: @chris_olbekson Houston, TX !

Magical WordPress Development With

Vagrant

Chris Olbekson @chris_olbekson

$ fink remove --recursive daemonic xinitrc $ sudo rm -rf /opt/local $ brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php $ brew install php53 —with-fpm —with-mysql nginx mysql $ echo export PATH="$(brew —prefix josegonzalez/php/php55)/bin:/usr/local/ bin:$PATH” > ~/.bash_profile

Fink Brew

Vagrant

How did we get here? !

My WordPress Toolbox circa 2005

Connect to a remote machine (usually I do development on my laptop, locally, but sometimes I’ll work from another computer):

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$ ssh -l remote_username example.com $ mkdir /path/to/wordpress/ $ cd /path/to/wordpress/ $ svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/ . $ nano filename.php

Minimum Requirements !

PHP 5.2.4 or greater MySQL 5.0 or greater The mod_rewrite Apache module !

Local LAMP Environments PHP, MySQL and Apache Binaries for Windows and Mac

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Minimum Requirements !

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XAMPP, MAMP, WAMP !

Point and click stable LAMP sandboxes

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Environment Requirements

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Ngnix Memcached Varnish Squid

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Environment Requirements

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Ngnix Memcached Varnish Squid

Vagrant is the magical

WordPress development environment you’ve been looking for

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What is Vagrant? Vagrant is open source software for creating and configuring portable development environments. !

http://www.vagrantup.com/about.html

1. Host 2. Guest 3. Box 4. Provisioning

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Anotomy of a Vagrant Virtual Machine

.VagrantFile !

provision.sh !

Puppet Chef Salt

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$ vagrant up !

$ vagrant destroy

Varying Vagrant Vagrants !

The primary goal of Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) is to provide an approachable way for developers to begin working in a development environment that matches a production environment as closely as possible. !

“The gateway Vagrant Config” — Jeremy Felt !https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV

VVV Site Wizard Bash script for spinning up new WordPress sites with VVV !

WordPress Theme Review VVV Creates a WordPress site set up with all the tools the Wordpress dot org theme review team uses. !

Primary Vagrant Uses Apache instead of Nginx and provisions with Puppet instead of bash

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13 Vagrant Resources for WordPress Development !

http://wptavern.com/13-vagrant-resources-for-wordpress-development !

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VIP Quick Start !

Closely resembles the WordPress dot com VIP stack !

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The Future? !

.VagrantFile in core !Hosting providers publishing a .VagrantFile !Hello WP Engine, HostGator, Media Temple !

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Questions? !

Comments? !

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