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In this lesson you will learn how to install a Web server on your virtual machine. Ultimately we will use a provisioning script to automate this task, but this lesson shows you the virtual machine is just like any other server you might have worked with in the past. Any time you want to add new software, you can always come back to this lesson if you (for some reason) don't want to create a recipe and re-provision your machine. Hopefully, though, by the end of this series you'll see why provisioning is a more robust solution than installing software directly.
Lesson Outcomes
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to log into your virtual machine, and use the command line to install new software.
Lesson Summary
- Navigate to www.vagrantbox.es.
- Locate a base box you would like to use. Ensure you are matching the "provider" to what you have. e.g. VirtualBox for these lessons (not VMware).
- At the command lines, initialize your new server:
$ vagrant init <box name> <box URL>- box name: ringtail64
- box URL (mind the line wrap): http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/precise/current/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box
$ vagrant up
Ensure your server is up and running, and then log in with the command: vagrant ssh. This command must be issued from within the directory which contains the file Vagrantfile.
Install an AMP server using the directions for your base box. We'll use the same technique as is covered in the lesson Installing a Web Server on Ubuntu.
$ sudo apt-get install tasksel$ sudo tasksel install lamp-server
This will install Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
To confirm the server is running, use the command: pstree.
Troubleshooting and Gotchas
- OSX can use vagrant ssh; Windows will need to install PuTTY and use ssh vagrant. Using PuTTY is covered in the bonus lesson for this series.
- If you get the error
tasksel: aptitude failed (100), run the following commands:$ sudo apt-get update$ sudo tasksel install lamp-server
(I got this error on a precise32 base box with a Windows 8 host running inside of Parallels on a Mac OSX machine.)
Over the years we've developed some techniques for practicing that we wanted to share. At Drupalize.Me we take hugging seriously. In this tutorial we'll look at the art, and science, of giving a good hug. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the word hug as; squeeze (someone) tightly in one's arms, typically to express affection.
Did you know there are all kinds of different hugs that you can give? In this tutorial we'll look at:
- Defining what a hug is
- Some of the many types of hugs in the world today
- Precautions you may want to familiarize yourself with before hugging
- And the importance of proper technique
Lets go ahead and get started shall we?