Might be worth noting in the steps that if postinstall.sh doesn't run (like it didn't for me) then running sudo sh postinstall.sh is needed.

Feel free to delete this comment if this is in the wrong place

VDD 8.x-1.x-dev does not support the new VirtualBox 4.3.
One fix is to use VirtualBox 4.2 from here

If anybody would like to add more CPU cores with Vagrant here's how:

http://pastebin.com/8hAbiysR

Notes:
• set the desired number of cores in config.json (e.g. "cpus": "4")
• the vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--ioapic", "on"] setting is recommended here

I'm trying to connect to the host so I can see the database and export, ... .
I've tried to connect to 192.168.44.44 with username: root and password: root but with no success.

(I am sure that root, root and the ip is correct!)

This is the error:

Unable to connect to host 192.168.44.44 because access was denied.

Double-check your username and password and ensure that access from your current location is permitted.

MySQL said: Access denied for user 'root'@'192.168.44.1' (using password: YES)

Whenever I try to use nfs type, I get these errors

==> default: ================================================================================
==> default: Error executing action `create` on resource 'directory[/var/www]'
==> default: ================================================================================
==> default:
==> default:
==> default: Errno::EPERM
==> default: ------------
==> default: Operation not permitted - /var/www
==> default:
==> default:
==> default: Resource Declaration:
==> default: ---------------------
==> default: # In /tmp/vagrant-chef-3/chef-solo-2/cookbooks/vdd/recipes/apache.rb
==> default:
==> default:   1: directory "/var/www" do
==> default:   2:   owner "vagrant"
==> default:   3:   group "vagrant"
==> default:   4: end
==> default:   5:
==> default:
==> default:
==> default:
==> default: Compiled Resource:
==> default: ------------------
...
Chef never successfully completed! Any errors should be visible in the
output above. Please fix your recipes so that they properly complete.

I think it is related to user and group permissions.

My host is OSX.

I try some configs with bindfs, but couldn't make it work.

Any clue?

If you get the error "Cookbook paths not loaded", this is a known issue with a simple workaround. See: https://www.drupal.org/node/2278423

In the 'Required Software' section, it says: 'Don’t forget to install Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack'. Is this actually necessary? I have not seen instructions for this on other 'how to' pages, and even the Vagrant install page doesn't mention it. What are the VDD-related capabilities that this adds?

Can I customize the box so it checks out custom git repo's? Also, where can I found the documentation about the specs of the Box that comes with VDD?

Fresh Ubuntu 14.04, virtual box 4.3xxx, latest vagrant.. downloaded the dev vdd.. ran it and this spit out at the end.

[default] Running provisioner: shell...
[default] Running: /tmp/vagrant-shell20141020-7618-xjignr
stdin: is not a tty
+--------------------------------------+
| |
| ooooo oooo ooooooooo ooooooooo |
| 888 88 888 88o 888 88o |
| 888 88 888 888 888 888 |
| 88888 888 888 888 888 |
| 888 o888ooo88 o888ooo88 |
| |
+--------------------------------------+Updating Chef to 11.12.4 version. This may take a few minutes...
[default] Running provisioner: chef_solo...
Generating chef JSON and uploading...
Running chef-solo...
stdin: is not a tty
[2014-10-21T02:24:54+00:00] FATAL: Configuration error NoMethodError: undefined method `ssl_verify_mode' for main:Object
[2014-10-21T02:24:54+00:00] FATAL: /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/solo.rb:24:in `load'
[2014-10-21T02:24:54+00:00] FATAL: /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/solo.rb:24:in `from_string'
[2014-10-21T02:24:54+00:00] FATAL: Aborting due to error in '/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/solo.rb'
Chef never successfully completed! Any errors should be visible in the
output above. Please fix your recipes so that they properly complete.

Hi

I'm attempting to follow the instructions above for setting up Win SSHFS.

I've completed the 4 steps I am updating the config.json to reflect the changes.

Should it just be:

"synced_folders": [
    {
      "host_path": "data/",
      "guest_path": "/var/www",
      "type": "sshfs"
    }
  ],

I have mounted the drive as X:

Cheers

So many complaints on Windows about sluggishness including my own experience. So, I commented out all the shared folder references in Vagrant file and in config.json
Vagrantfile Synced folders section now reads:
# Synced Folders.
end
# Run initial shell script.

and config.json modded to read:
"synced_folders": [],

Now lightening fast. I don't want the shared folders anyway, can do everything via ssh.

Not sure if someone will care about it, but I'm not able to use drush in vdd with drupal 6, I'm gettings errors like user_load_by_mail() is undefined and user_load_by_name() is undefined, which actually are not present in drupal 6.

--
Drush command terminated abnormally due to an unrecoverable error. [error]
Error: Call to undefined function Drush\User\user_load_by_name() in /usr/local/bin/drush-master/lib/Drush/User/UserVersion.php, line 34
Drush was not able to start (bootstrap) Drupal.

Some of our devs run Windows 8, what's the purpose of installing SSHFS on Windows? I'm not sure I understand why you'd need to mount the filesystem over SSH the vdd_tour\data\drupal7 and vdd_tour\data\drupal8 are both accessible to Windows without SSHFS.

Hello,

I'm very new to Vagrant but think I've mostly got this up and running but am having problems working with the database.

I've tried using PHPmyadmin to import a database file I exported from a current Drupal site but every time I try I just get an error message stating "No data was received to import. Either no file name was submitted, or the file size exceeded the maximum size permitted by your PHP configuration." The thing is though the compressed version of the file is around 13MB & the uncompressed version is 137MB, I tried both, but PHPmyadmin says that the maximum is 500MB so they cannot be to large. The file name also only has three characters, no special ones, then the .sql extension.

The other problem I'm having is connecting using MySQL Workbench, I enter in all the credentials but then keep getting prompted for the password, I keep typing in "root" but it doesn't seem to work.

Any help would be very helpful,
Thanks.

Please note, VDD works great with Drupal 6, 7 and 8.

Does it? VDD uses PHP 5.4 now. Drupal 6 works with 5.2 and 5.3.

I have been testing this system and it worked well for a whole day of testing and now, all of a sudden, I can getting the following error:

The SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status. Vagrant
assumes that this means the command failed. The output for this command
should be in the log above. Please read the output to determine what
went wrong.

It always appears at the same location during 'up'.

==> default: +--------------------------------------+
==> default: | |
==> default: | ooooo oooo ooooooooo ooooooooo |
==> default: | 888 88 888 88o 888 88o |
==> default: | 888 88 888 888 888 888 |
==> default: | 88888 888 888 888 888 |
==> default: | 888 o888ooo88 o888ooo88 |
==> default: | |
==> default: +--------------------------------------+
==> default: Updating Chef to 11.12.4 version. This may take a few minutes...
The SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status. Vagrant
assumes that this means the command failed. The output for this command
should be in the log above. Please read the output to determine what
went wrong.

Any insight on what this may be would be great.

Cheers!

Thanks for the tip.
I too needed to manually run the sudo sh postinstall.sh to complete the process.

If you're looking for a quick way to get a Drupal 8 Vagrant dev environment up take a look at this -- https://github.com/thom8/drupal8-vagrant

It uses a pre provisioned box so no need for anything other than Vagrant and Virtualbox - it also installs Drupal 8 during "vagrant up".

However, you can't edit the provisioner as it is built into the base box but there's a config.yml file which has some customisable options.

I performed a fresh install of VDD and had issues with "vagrant provision" working as I expected and this tip fixed it for me. http://stackoverflow.com/a/28145459

it seems like there is a bug with sync folders, this clears the cache and fixed it for me. (from your project directory)

rm .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/synced_folders
vagrant reload --provision
https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/5199

Just tried the latest stable VDD and development VDD version, which seem to be configuring the box to use PHP 5.4.4.

When trying to install Drupal 7 (git clone --branch 7.0.x http://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git .), getting this message: Your PHP installation is too old. Drupal requires at least PHP 5.5.9. See the system requirements page for more information.

One other option to addressing the slow performance using Windows as a host OS is to install smbclient and cifs-utils on the guest OS and mount the /var/www folder using smb.

How should I update config.json to build more than one drupal 7 installation?

Hi,

I am new to Drupal and VDD. I managed to get VDD working on my computer, using the defaults it came up with, except that I used nfs.

I already have a dedicated server running Debian/Jessie (that's Debian 8.2). If I want my virtual box to be running Debian/Jessie too, can I just replace Ubuntu trusty in the configuration files with Debian/Jessie, or would I have to change other things in the configuration files too. In other words, do the configuration files contain things (other than the Ubuntu/trusty specification) that are specific to Ubuntu/trusty, and that wouldn't work as is on a Debian/Jessie ?

I am asking for both the current release and for future plans.

Trying to get the hang of this. I followed the steps to set up an environment for drupal8.
However, I'm having issues with the php version. When running php -v in the terminal the prompt returns the version 5.5.9-ubuntu4.13 but when printing out the phpinfo on the drupal index page it states that the php version is 5.4.45-2+deb.sury.org~precise+2. Why do the versions differ?

Sorry to say but this box doesn't work anymore. The newest version of Drupal 8 requires minimum PHP 5.5.9 and for best experience PHP 5.6. The version of PHP provided with this box is 5.4.45:

vagrant@precise32:~/sites/drupal8$ php -v
PHP 5.4.45-2+deb.sury.org~precise+2 (cli) (built: Oct 4 2015 16:13:43)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v2.3.2, Copyright (c) 2002-2015, by Derick Rethans

So it needs to be updated if you want to run Drupal 8 on this envioment. Besides, it's also warns about the branch that doesn't exists:

warning: Remote branch 8.x not found in upstream origin, using HEAD instead

Any update? Is dev version includes PHP >= 5.5.9 ?

EDIT
DRUPAL 8 CAN BE INSTALLED WHEN USING dev VERSION OF PROJECT.

Hey guys,

I've been working on a vagrant implementation of drupal 7, within centos 7x. It is a fully functional drupal-demonstration, and only needs to be cloned, then issued the vagrant up command to build. Remember, like any drupal installation, you'll need the database information. This can be found within the following:

• /puppet/environment/development/manifest/configure_database.pp

Though, for some of you: by the time you read this, it is likely I've restructured my puppet implementation, into puppet modules. So, I'd use the authenticated sql user, and the corresponding password, password (that shouldn't change). Also, this repository, implements selinux, and forwards any http requests to the ssl equivalent.

But, I have not provided any sort of stigging for this environment, since Redhat/Centos 7x has not officially provided stig guidelines. I hope this repository is beneficial to people. If not, feel free to post issues.

Thank you!

The private key for the SSHFS access is not as described in
PrivateKey: [PATH_TO_USER_HOME_FOLDER]\.vagrant.d\insecure_private_key

If I use that I get an access denied message. Using the vagrant ssh-config command shows that /vdd/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key is used.

When I try drush @drupal8 si standard -y

I get this error message:
[error] Could not find the alias @drupal8

My config.json is correct (I think):

{
  "vm": {
    "ip": "192.168.44.44",
    "memory": "1024",
    "synced_folders": [
      {
        "host_path": "data/",
        "guest_path": "/var/www",
        "type": "nfs"
      }
    ],
    "forwarded_ports": []
  },
  "vdd": {
    "sites": {
      "drupal8": {
        "account_name": "root",
        "account_pass": "root",
        "account_mail": "box@example.com",
        "site_name": "Drupal 8",
        "site_mail": "box@example.com",
        "vhost": {
          "document_root": "drupal8",
          "url": "drupal8.dev",
          "alias": ["www.drupal8.dev"]
        }
      },
      "drupal7": {
        "account_name": "root",
        "account_pass": "root",
        "account_mail": "box@example.com",
        "site_name": "Drupal 7",
        "site_mail": "box@example.com",
        "vhost": {
          "document_root": "drupal7",
          "url": "drupal7.dev",
          "alias": ["www.drupal7.dev"]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Why drush not recognize aliases? It's a fresh VDD installation...

Hey guys, I've updated my drupal-demonstration repository. As it was before, install the following:

- vagrant (with extension pack)
- virtual box

Then, all you have to do is clone the drupal-demonstration, into your machine, and execute vagrant up. This will provision a nice centos 7x (with selinux enabled) virtual machine, with a fully functional drupal 7 instance, via a custom drupal install profile, provisioned by puppet. This means, if you have additional modules, or themes, or site configuration(s) that need to be enabled, or adjusted during install, this is where to define it.

Not only is the drupal install automated, but I configured a redis-server (again automated with the build) to do database caching. So, your local drupal website, will notice a significant (and noticeable) performance boost, compared to the previous iteration of the drupal-demonstration.

You really don't have to do anything, just download two things, issue the vagrant up command, then visit your nice drupal sandbox, configured with a self-signed certificate at https://localhost:6656.

I recently went through the steps listed here to install the latest (as of July 18, 2016) VDD on Mac El Capitan, and ran into issues. I'm posting a quick solution here so you don't have to go searching if you want to get this running quickly.

The release version fails on Chef provisioning steps.
The Dev version gets farther along in the provisioning process but also fails before completing. Since Dev gets farther before failing I stuck with that version. It was erroring out while installing Mailcatcher. Since I don't need Mailcatcher in my local dev, I followed BigEd's steps to remove it from the recipe. After removing Mailcatcher the provisioning completed successfully.

Also, the Drush command listed in the documentation to install Drupal (I'm installing Drupal 8) doesn't work as stated. I looked into using Drupal Console for a quick installation, but that gives you a site which uses SQLLite with the default PHP web server. Since I wanted to use the Apache server and MySql, which are included in the VDD virtual machine, I decided to stick with Drush. The install command that worked for me was as follows. First, follow the documented instructions for cloning a fresh version of Drupal 8 into the ~/sites/drupal8 directory. Then, in the same directory, run something like this:

drush site-install standard --db-url=mysql://[dbUser]:[dbPassword]@localhost/drupal8 --account-name=admin --account-pass=[acctPassword] --site-name=My_D8_Site

The alias for the site-install command is 'si', if you're into shorter commands.
Replace [dbUser] with the database user ID, which is 'root' by default.
Replace [dbPassword] with the database user password, which for the root user is also 'root'.
Replace [acctPassword] with the password you want to use for the admin Drupal user account.
'localhost' is the database host
'drupal8' is the name of the database. If you use a different database name, go into mysql and create it, then specify that name here instead.
I didn't find a way to include spaces in my --site-name value. It didn't recognize single or double quotes, so I had to use a one-word name. Probably better to just add the name manually, after the site install.

If you do the site install like that, it will create a settings.php file for you.

The instructions for enabling NFS worked as stated.

*Addition - When I ran the same Vagrant recipe on my work MacBook (which worked on my personal MacBook), it failed with a different issue. It was a 404 error in chef provisioning with a “node not found” message. I learned this is caused by a bad (or mismatched) chef version, and some users had gotten around it by installing an earlier version. So I added the following to my Vagrantfile under
config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
chef.channel = "stable"
chef.version = "12.10.24"

This caused chef version 12.10.24 to be installed when it got to that point in the Vagrantfile, and then it completed provisioning successfully. I tried changing the config in chef/shell/initial.sh to install chef 12.10.24 but that caused another failure on ruby version, so I left initial.sh as it was and kept the extra chef install in Vagrantfile as stated above.

Here is the (rather hacked-up) version of VDD I ended up with on GitHub: https://github.com/ajfwebdev/vdd_ajf

Hi all,
Recent changes to the repository for PHP and difficulties in getting VDD to work pushed me to spend a few hours in front of the PC trying to get it working.
A few more hours than expected later, I ended up with an attempt to move to LTS16.04 and PHP7. No promises that it will work for everyone but it has allowed me to carry on Drupal development (I think) if I come across any other issues over the next week I will try and push them here: vdd_gr

I follow this page tutorial. The Download VDD link actually gave me an error below.

default: Updating Chef to 11.12.4 version. This may take a few minutes...
The SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status. Vagrant
assumes that this means the command failed. The output for this command
should be in the log above. Please read the output to determine what
went wrong.

That is because the Download VDD link is pointing to the outdated VDD project page.

I found the right link to the most updated VDD project. https://www.drupal.org/node/2008018/git-instructions/8.x-2.x

Download that and did vagrant up, no errors.