Tag Archives: MacPorts

VirtualBox, Vagrant and Mac OS X: instant linux development environment

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Vagrant is a Ruby project that lets you set up a Linux virtual machine very quickly, using VirtualBox. Ideally, at least.  Getting it set up the first time on a MacBook can be tricky.  Here’s how I got it running.

This assumes you’re running Vagrant in your home directory.  Also, I already had VirtualBox installed.

Updated 5/30/2011: The previous instructions added ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm to ~/.bash_profile, which caused RVM’s settings to override anything in your ~/.profile.  See “Gotchas” for more info.

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Starting and stopping NginX / MySQL / PHP-FPM on Mac OS X

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Keeping up with my local dev environment, a while back I wrote a post on Starting and stopping NginX-MySQL-PHP-FCGI on Mac OS X.  I’ve made some changes since then, and I now use a slightly different stack.

I modified MacPorts to configure PHP5 with FPM support, and added in Memcached (also Varnish, but we don’t use that at work and I haven’t been inclined to mess with it, so it’s not in my script).
Script source and changelog after the break…