packer-templates

This respository is for maintaining my Vagrant Box Templates using Packer which create machine images running a LAMP-Stack.

If you want to create the LAMP box yourself, you can do so with the following command in the "lamp" directory:

packer build -except="vaground-cloud" -var "version=1.0.0" -var-file="debian-12.4-amd64.json" .\lamp.json

The pre-built virtual machine (Virtualbox) is available on Vagrant Cloud. To start the virtual machine you need VirtualBox at least v7.0 and Vagrant at least v2. I recommend the latest version v2.4.1.

Use the pre-built virtual machine by changing to a directory such as dev.local and initialize the box with Vagrant:

mkdir dev.local
cd dev.local
vagrant init -m manhart/lamp
vagrant up

The box uses symbolic links. Under Windows this has to be activated separately.

Vagrantfile Options

The following optional variables are available in the Vagrantfile to customize the box:

VM_NAME = 'dev.local';
VM_IP = '192.168.56.11';
VM_SSH_PORT = '22022';

If you want to use more or different virtual hosts, you can add them to the Vagrantfile. The associated self-signed SSL/TLS certificates are also created for each VHost, e.g.:

VM_CLEAR_HOSTS = true;
HOSTNAME = VM_NAME.split('.')[0];
VM_VHOSTS = [
    {
      "server_name": "#{HOSTNAME}.local",
      "server_alias": ["*.#{HOSTNAME}.local"],
      "document_root": "/virtualweb/#{HOSTNAME}.local",
      "enable_http": true,
      "enable_https": true,
      "env_vars": {
        "_RelativeRoot": "..",
        "_Stage": "develop",
        "_SQL_Host": "vagrant@localhost",
        "_DefaultSessionDuration": "14400"
      }
    },
    {
      "server_name": "app.local",
      "document_root": "/virtualweb/app.local",
      "enable_http": true,
      "enable_https": true,
      "env_vars": {
        "_RelativeRoot": "..",
        "_Stage": "develop",
        "_SQL_Host": "127.0.0.1",
        "_DefaultSessionDuration": "14400"
      }
    }
];

By default, the box is configured with the following user data:

Username: vagrant Password: vagrant

Installed Software

• Debian 12.4
• Apache 2.4.57
• PHP 8.3, 8.2, 8.1, 7.4 with Xdebug 3, sqlsrv, pdo_sqlsrv and a lot more
• MariaDB 10.11
• Composer 2.6.6
• Node.js 20.11
• MailCatcher 0.8.0
• phpMyAdmin 5.2.1
• mysqltuner 2.2.12