Vagrant Virtual Machine with CentOS 7, Nginx, MariaDb, NodeJs and PHP 8

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Once you have up and running Vagrant and VirtualBox in your machine you need to follow these steps to create a VM and install all necessary dependencies to run PHP Projects.

UPDATE: I have updated the vagrant file to use CentOS 9 Stream so we can install newer versions of PHP and NodeJs

Prerequisites:

 vagrant vm

Step 1. Go to the Directory where you have the Vagrantfile and then execute

$ vagrant suspend

 this will stop the VM if it is running.

then with a text editor, replace the content of the Vagrantfile with this:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  # VM with CentOS 9
  config.vm.box = "martyV/centos9-stream"
  # Use private network
  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.56.10"

  # sync a project folder between host computer and VM
  config.vm.synced_folder "./projects", "/var/www/projects"

  # Enable provisioning with a shell script. Additional provisioners such as
  # Ansible, Chef, Docker, Puppet and Salt are also available. Please see the
  # documentation for more information about their specific syntax and use.
    config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
        sudo dnf -y update
        sudo dnf -y install perl wget nano cronie zip unzip grubby gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel make
        sudo dnf module install nginx:1.24 -y
        sudo dnf module install mariadb:10.11 -y
        sudo dnf module install php:8.2 -y
        sudo dnf module install nodejs:20 -y
        sudo dnf -y install php-gd php-mysqlnd php-mbstring php-xml php-intl php-pdo php-soap php-opcache php-json php-cli php-devel php-odbc php-pecl-apcu php-pear php-zip
        sudo systemctl start firewalld
        sudo systemctl enable firewalld
        sudo systemctl start mariadb
        sudo systemctl enable mariadb
        sudo systemctl start nginx
        sudo systemctl enable nginx
        sudo systemctl start php-fpm
        sudo systemctl enable php-fpm
        sudo curl --silent --location https://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/yarn.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/yarn.repo
        sudo rpm --import https://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/pubkey.gpg
        sudo dnf -y install yarn
        php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
        php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'dac665fdc30fdd8ec78b38b9800061b4150413ff2e3b6f88543c636f7cd84f6db9189d43a81e5503cda447da73c7e5b6') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
        php composer-setup.php
        php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
        sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
        sudo chown -R root:nginx /var/lib/php
    SHELL
end

 Save the file.

 

Step 2. Execute

$ mkdir projects
$ vagrant up --provision

First you will create the projects folder where you will be sync'ing all your code between host machine and VM, then you wil lturn on and provision the VM. This process may take a few minutes in get done.

Step 2. Open a SSH Console to configure new provisioned Virtual Machine.

$ vagrant ssh

 

Step 3. Open up ports 80 and 443 to allow requests from the outside world into the VM.

$ sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=80/tcp
$ sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=443/tcp
$ sudo firewall-cmd --reload
$ # make sure the ports were added and loaded
$ sudo firewall-cmd --list-ports

 you will see something like this:

 

 Step 4. Tune VM to work with Enterprise Class PHP Projects.

$ sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="elevator=noop"

 then

$ sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

remove all lines if any and replace with:

#####  Performance kernel conf
##     Ruben Elizondo
##
## restrict file swapping as much as possible. not recommended to set it to 0
vm.swappiness = 1
fs.file-max = 5000000
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 400000
net.core.optmem_max = 10000000
net.core.rmem_default = 10000000
net.core.rmem_max = 10000000
net.core.somaxconn = 100000
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000
net.core.wmem_max = 10000000
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65535
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = bic
net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 12000
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1
kernel.shmmax=1073741824
kernel.msgmni=1024
kernel.sem=250 32000 32 1024

 

Save the file and then

$ sudo nano /etc/security/limits.conf

add this just right below #@student

*                -	 nofile          16384

Save the file.

Then restart your VM to enable all these changes.

$ exit
$ vagrant suspend
$ vagrant up

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