Setup ServerPilot with Vagrant

This repository provides a better way to install Vagrant w/ ServerPilot. After following the installation instructions, you’ll have a server managed by ServerPilot and accessible via your browser at anything-you-want-to.

https://serverpilot.io

Information

You will be able to setup as many domain as you want. And a better, faster stack for developing Magento 2

Getting Started

1. Install dependencies
   • Virtualbox 5.0 or greater.
   • Vagrant 1.8.3 or greater.
2. Clone this repository
3. Change the settings in settings.yml to fit your needs
4. Execute the following commands to setup the virtual machine : (check this before execute commands below)

   $ vagrant up
   $ vagrant ssh

Connecting to ServerPilot

• Log in to ServerPilot
• Go to the Servers page and click + Connect Server

• Click I don't have a root password or public IP address at the bottom

  • Hostname => Anything you want
  • SFTP Password => Choose a password
  • Enable SSH password authentication if it's current disabled (uncheck if you don’t want to use password)
    

• Copy server-id and server-api-key in the command ServerPilot generated into settings.yml
  

• Your settings.yml will look like this :
  

• Watch ServerPilot install
  

• Note : The part Testing server configuration may take several minutes (3-5 minutes based on your Internet connection’s moods)
• Your console will look like this while installing
  
• Your console will look like this after finished
  

Create your Applications in ServerPilot

• Go to the Apps (or Servers) page and click + Create App
  • Name => anything-you-want
  • Domain => anything.domain
  • Runtime => choose-your-php-version (such as 5.6)
  • Server => your-newly-created-server
    

Create Database for your Applications

• Navigate to your application, change to Databases
• Click to +Create Database
  • Name => anything-you-want
  • Username => <generated>
  • Password => <generated> (should copy to somewhere because you can’t change it via GUI)
    

Edit the hosts file

• Edit the following file as administrator / root
  • Linux/Mac OS X : /etc/hosts
  • Windows : C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
• Add the following code in this file :
  • <your-private-ip> anything.domain

Enjoy

• Go to anything.domain in a new tab and you should see the ServerPilot splash page or your application.
  

More Configuration

The following configuration are not required, but could be useful some day.

Dnsmasq (*nix)

Dnsmasq is a very well-known package in nix world (Mac OS X is Unix, Ubuntu is Linux).
It provides network infrastructure for small networks such as DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot.
If you need to point a domain to a specified IP address like .dev, .local, .xxx to 127.0.0.1*, you will need Dnsmasq!

• Ubuntu tutorials
  • http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/dnsmasq.8.html
  • https://gist.github.com/magnetikonline/6236150
• Mac OS X tutorials
  • https://passingcuriosity.com/2013/dnsmasq-dev-osx/
  • https://gist.github.com/ogrrd/5831371

Acrylic DNS (Windows folks)

Are you tired by changing your hosts file all the time? Do you want to config your hosts file once and never touch it again?
Then ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Acrylic DNS - an alternative Dnsmasq for Windows.

• Windows instructions
  • Download & install the package you find in the link above for your Windows 7/8/10
  • In your Acrylic config file :
    • Find PrimaryServerAddress=8.8.8.8 and replace 8.8.8.8 to your primary DNS server you’d like
    • Find SecondaryServerAddress=8.8.4.4 and replace 8.8.4.4 to your secondary DNS server you’d like
  • In your Acrylic host file :
    • Add <your-private-ip> *.domain to the end of file (replace .domain to whatever you want such as .local)
  • Access the properties of your Internet connection, then access the properties of the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) item
    
  • Select the Use the following DNS server addresses option and set the value of the Preferred DNS server field to 127.0.0.1. Then click on the OK button.
    
  • Purge DNS cache by go to Start Menu\Acrylic DNS Proxy\Config\Purge Acrylic Cache Data
  • DONE!

Connect to the SFTP

Yes, you can connect to the server using the SFTP method !

• Use your prefered software. I will use Transmit.
• Login in Transmit with the following credentials :
  • Host => <your-private-ip>
  • User => serverpilot
  • Password => The SFTP password that you provided at the beginning of this tutorial
  • Port => 22
• You can also login with the ubuntu user :
  • Host => <your-private-ip>
  • User => ubuntu
  • Password => ubuntu
  • Port => 22
• But I recommend you to use the serverpilot user and not the vagrant, else you will probably have some permissions issues (i.e : https://serverpilot.io/community/articles/how-to-fix-file-permissions.html)