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Vagrant mac os x simulator plus#

PuPHPet files (not required but definitely makes things easier).

Also, this is a guide that's mainly focused on setting up a LAMP stack, but I'm confident that after following all the steps, you'll become pretty well acquainted with Vagrant and will most likely be able to set up any kind of stack you require afterwards. Just a note - this guide is relevant to Windows 7 and OS X Mavericks. Almost. There are a couple of fiddly things you may need to do on both Windows and OS X but I'll be going through everything that I learned here so hopefully that will be enough to get you through.

Vagrant mac os x simulator plus#

You're also removing personal limitations that stop you from learning new things, and that's a huge, huge plus in an industry that can quite literally change over night.Ĭombining Vagrant with PuPHPeT almost feels like cheating. Packages like WAMP and MAMP abstract this away from developers enough so that they don't have to worry about it too much which is all well and good for the most basic of apps, but for anything more complex, you're giving yourself a huge advantage on shipping a better product if you understand the stack where you house it.

I believe that any web developer owes it to themselves and their clients/company to understand the environment in which their app exists. Why would you want to do this? Are you a server admin now? Well yes and no, but mainly yes. If you're unsure what Vagrant is, let's just call it a mysterious a form of dark magic that makes setting up a virtual machine on your native OS amazingly simple. I tried and failed to get the extension working many times before throwing in the towel and turning to Vagrant. While php.net says this extension is bundled with PHP after v 5.3, I found that wasn't the case with my installations on either WAMP Server 2.0/2.2 or on MAMP. Recently I wanted to get the PHP extension Enchant working for an app I am developing.