I have successfully installed Vagrant along with some boxes on my Windows PC. I got to say it works awesome, creating and destroying VM's with different configurations on the fly.
The only problem I'm facing now is that I want to install composer. But composer requires you to point to the php.exe to do so. I don't want to install PHP on my computer, otherwhise there is no point using Vagrant, right. How do I tackle this problem?
I've seen some articles about using Puppet, but I couldn't make much sense out of them.
Thanks in advance.
You just need to install PHP (and curl) in your vagrant box. For instance, execute vagrant ssh to get SSH access to your box and execute the following commands:
$ sudo apt-get install -y php5-cli curl
$ curl -Ss https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer
Now you're ready to use the composer command in your vagrant box.
You can improve this by making this part of provisioning, the step where a box is set up when running vagrant up. To do this, put the above commands in a shell file (for instance project/vagrant/provision.sh):
sudo apt-get install -y php5-cli curl > /dev/null
curl -Ss https://getcomposer.org/installer | php > /dev/null
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer
Now, configure this shell file as a provision step in your VagrantFile:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
# configure the shell file as a provision step:
config.vm.provision :shell, path: "vagrant/provision.sh"
end
Now, when running vagrant init, the shell file is executed and php & composer are installed.
You can also choose to use a box with php and composer pre-installed, like laravel/homestead.