Vagrant

Using vagrant to host WordPress locally

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1. Vagrant
   Virtual Machines + automation =
   win
   Tom J Nowell, @tarendai, tomjn.
   com
   

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2. ● What is Vagrant
   ● Installing Vagrant
   ● Using Vagrant
   ● Moving to Vagrant
   

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3. Installing Vagrant
   Install Virtualbox
   https://www.virtualbox.
   org/wiki/Downloads
   

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4. Installing Vagrant
   

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5. Installing Vagrant
   Install Vagrant
   http://vagrantup.com
   

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6. Installing Vagrant
   

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7. Installing Vagrant
   Install the Hosts Updater:
   $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
   $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
   

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8. Using Vagrant
   What now?
   

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9. Using Vagrant
   Grab Varying Vagrant
   Vagrants
   

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10. Using Vagrant
    VVV is now your web
    environment
    

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11. Using Vagrant
    Open the VVV folder in the
    terminal and type
    vagrant up --provision
    to start the server for the
    first time
    

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12. Using Vagrant
    

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13. Using Vagrant
    To stop the server:
    vagrant halt
    

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14. Using Vagrant
    To start it again:
    vagrant up
    

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15. Using Vagrant
    To destroy the server:
    vagrant destroy
    

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16. Using Vagrant
    To login to the server:
    vagrant ssh
    

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17. Using Vagrant
    To check if it’s running:
    vagrant status
    

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18. Using Vagrant
    vagrant up # start
    vagrant halt # stop
    vagrant destroy # destroy
    vagrant ssh # login
    vagrant status # is it up?
    

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19. Using Vagrant
    This gets you:
    ● Ubuntu Virtual Machine
    ● PHPMyAdmin
    ● Nginx
    ● WordPress Dev & stable
    ● WP CLI
    ● all listed at http://vvv/
    

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20. Using Vagrant
    

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21. Moving to Vagrant
    To add a site, go to the
    www folder and create:
    ● A subfolder for your site
    ● a vvv-nginx.conf file
    ● a vvv-hosts file
    

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22. Moving to Vagrant
    vvv-nginx.conf contains an
    Nginx configuration file
    

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23. Moving to Vagrant
    vvv-hosts is a hosts file
    with the list of hosts to
    add
    

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24. Example vvv-nginx.conf
    server {
    listen 80;
    listen 443 ssl;
    # CHANGE THE DOMAINS BELOW AND SAVE
    server_name tomjn.com www.tomjn.com;
    root {vvv_path_to_folder};
    include /etc/nginx/nginx-wp-common.conf;
    }
    

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25. Example vvv-hosts
    tomjn.com
    www.tomjn.com
    

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26. Moving to Vagrant
    When you’ve done that, put
    your sites files in that
    folder, and re-provision
    the server:
    vagrant halt
    vagrant up --provision
    

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27. Moving to Vagrant
    ● All my sites are in MAMP
    ● I change files and FTP
    them up to see the changes
    ● What about our existing
    sites?
    ● We dont have the time to
    switch over
    

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28. Moving to Vagrant
    vvv-init.sh
    Gets ran when vagrant
    provisions itself.
    Lives with vvv-nginx.conf
    and vvv-hosts
    

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29. Moving to Vagrant
    Example vvv-init.sh
    wp core download
    wp core install --url=”etc..
    wp plugin install wpseo
    wp plugin activate wpseo
    wp import content.xml
    

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30. #!/bin/sh
    SUSER="alantaifirestar"; # SSH user
    SHOST="tomjn.com"; # remote server
    SDIR="/home/alantaifirestar/tomjn.com/"; # remote folder
    LDIR="/srv/www/tomjn.com" #local folder
    echo 'starting rsync'
    rsync -e "/usr/bin/ssh" --compress --stats --bwlimit=2000 -rlDHS $SUSER@$SHOST:$SDIR
    $LDIR
    echo 'finished rsync, grabbing database'
    WHOST=`cat $LDIR/wp-config.php | grep DB_HOST | cut -d \' -f 4`; # get the DB details
    WNAME=`cat $LDIR/wp-config.php | grep DB_NAME | cut -d \' -f 4`;
    WUSER=`cat $LDIR/wp-config.php | grep DB_USER | cut -d \' -f 4`;
    WPASS=`cat $LDIR/wp-config.php | grep DB_PASSWORD | cut -d \' -f 4`;
    ssh $SUSER@$SHOST "mysqldump -q -u $WUSER -h $WHOST -p$WPASS $WNAME | gzip -9 > backup.
    sql.gz"
    scp $SUSER@$SHOST:./backup.sql.gz . # copy all the files to backup server
    ssh $SUSER@$SHOST rm ./backup.sql.gz # delete files on db server
    gunzip -d backup.sql.gz # unzip it
    mysql -u root -e "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS $WNAME" # create the database locally
    mysql -u root -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON $WNAME.* To 'wp'@'localhost'"
    mysql -u wp -pwp $WNAME < backup.sql # pull in the DB dump
    sed -i "/DB_HOST/s/'[^']*'/'localhost'/2" wp-config.php # change wp-config.php values
    sed -i "/DB_USER/s/'[^']*'/'wp'/2" wp-config.php
    sed -i "/DB_PASSWORD/s/'[^']*'/'wp'/2" wp-config.php
    

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31. Questions?
    Tom J Nowell
    @tarendai
    tomjn.com
    

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