A basic Ubuntu 12.04 Vagrant setup with PHP 5.5. PHP 5.4 w/ Apache 2.2 is available on the php54 branch.

• VirtualBox - Free virtualization software Download Virtualbox
• Vagrant 1.3+ - Tool for working with virtualbox images Download Vagrant
• Git - Source Control Management Download Git

• run vagrant up inside the newly created directory
• (the first time you run vagrant it will need to fetch the virtual box image which is ~300mb so depending on your download speed this could take some time)
• Vagrant will then use puppet to provision the base virtual box with our LAMP stack (this could take a few minutes) also note that composer will need to fetch all of the packages defined in the app's composer.json which will add some more time to the first provisioning run
• You can verify that everything was successful by opening https://localhost:8888 in a browser

Note: You may have to change permissions on the www/app/storage folder to 777 under the host OS

For example: chmod -R 777 www/app/storage/

Some basic information on interacting with the vagrant box

• 8888 - Apache
• 8889 - MySQL

Accessible at https://localhost:8888/phpmyadmin using MySQL access credentials above.

Vagrant is very well documented but here are a few common commands:

• vagrant up starts the virtual machine and provisions it
• vagrant suspend will essentially put the machine to 'sleep' with vagrant resume waking it back up
• vagrant halt attempts a graceful shutdown of the machine and will need to be brought back with vagrant up
• vagrant ssh gives you shell access to the virtual machine

• OS - Ubuntu 12.04
• Apache - 2.4.6
• PHP - 5.5.4
• MySQL - 5.5.32
• Beanstalkd - 1.4.6
• Redis - 2.2.12
• Memcached - 1.4.13