Vagrantfile for Centos 6 LAMP stack - vagrantfile

Question

I need assistance putting together a Vagrantfile.
I am trying to setup a virtual machine on my Windows desktop for working on an existing PHP/MySQL application. I've been instructed to use Vagrant and VirtualBox. I've been going through the documentation for Vagrant and found this to be over my head with a lot of information out of date. I have some background in general Linux usage, but none in setting up LAMP servers on them.
What I have:
Vagrant 2.1.2
VirtualBox 5.2.18
Things I need in the VM:
Centos 6
Apache
MySQL 5.5
PHP 5.6
MySQLi/Mysqlnd (PDO optional)
Curl
DOM/SimpleXML
Any PHP extensions needed for a typical PHP application

Answer 1

It has taken a few weeks and a lot of wading through out of date tutorials, but I got it done. I am sharing so others on the LAMP service stack have a place to start in crafting their vagrantfile. Note that this was not done for elegance. It is a quick starter that is easy-ish to understand and adjust to one's needs.
A few small deviations of note were made from the above original post:
I went with Ubuntu/bionic64 instead of Centos 6, mostly because of the abundance of tutorial material I was able to find. Modifying this file for CentOS 6 shouldn't be too hard. CentOS uses Yum instead of Apt-get for package management. I'm not entirely certain what else is different.
I went with PHP 7.2 instead of 5.6.
I found PHP 7.2 comes with MySQLi and the native driver already installed out of the box.
Working vagrantfile and shell bootstrapper included, heavily commented for comprehension: https://pastebin.com/Eqvhq8KZ
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = '2'
#########################################################################
# VM Setup for LAMP stack application
#
# - Install PHP and packages
# - Install Apache
# - Configure /vagrant as document root
# - Config PHP for development and logging
# - Install MySQL
# - Setup database and permissions (username and password are "vagrant")
# - Install Composer
#########################################################################
#script = <<SCRIPT
#################### PHP ####################
apt-get install -y apt-utils php7.2 php7.2-bcmath php7.2-bz2 php7.2-cli php7.2-curl php7.2-intl php7.2-json php7.2-mbstring php7.2-opcache php7.2-soap php7.2-sqlite3 php7.2-xml php7.2-xsl php7.2-zip unzip
#################### APACHE2 ####################
apt-get install -y apache2 libapache2-mod-php7.2
# Remove /var/www default
rm -rf /var/www
# Symlink /vagrant to /var/www
ln -fs /vagrant /var/www
# Add ServerName to httpd.conf
echo "ServerName localhost" > /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
# Setup hosts file
VHOST=$(cat <<EOF
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/vagrant"
ServerName localhost
<Directory "/vagrant">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AddType text/html .shtm .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .htm .html .shtm .shtml
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
EOF
)
echo "${VHOST}" > /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
# Enable mod_rewrite
a2enmod rewrite
# Put PHP into development configuration
mv /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini.back
cp /usr/lib/php/7.2/php.ini-development /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini
# Enable PHP extensions in php.ini
#sed -i 's/;extension=mysqli/extension=mysqli/' /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini
# PHP will log its errors in a /log/error_log file
sed -i 's:;error_log = php_errors.log:error_log = /vagrant/log/error_log:' /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini
# Restart apache
systemctl restart apache2.service
#################### MYSQL ####################
apt-get install -y mysql-server mysql-client-core-5.7 php7.2-mysql
systemctl start mysql.service
# Reset root password
#/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'root'
mysqladmin -u root password 'root'
# Setup database from root user and setup the application user
mysql -uroot -proot -e "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS app"
mysql -uroot -proot app < /vagrant/db/schema.sql
mysql -uroot -proot -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* to 'vagrant'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'vagrant'"
mysql -uroot -proot -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* to 'vagrant'#'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'vagrant'"
mysql -uroot -proot -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES"
# Allow remote connections for MySQL Workbench
MYSQLCONF=$(cat <<EOF
[mysqld]
bind-address = 0.0.0.0
EOF
)
echo "${MYSQLCONF}" >> /etc/mysql/my.cnf
# Restart mysql
/etc/init.d/mysql restart
#################### COMPOSER ####################
curl -sS http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
# Run composer install
cd /vagrant && composer install
#################### FINISHED! ####################
echo "** [PHP] Visit http://localhost:8080 in your browser for to view the application **"
SCRIPT
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
config.vm.box = 'ubuntu/bionic64'
config.ssh.insert_key = false
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 443, host: 8081
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 3306, host: 3307
#config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/var/www/html'
# Provision runs only on the first "Vangrant up" command
config.vm.provision 'shell', privileged: true, inline: #script
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "2048"]
vb.customize ['modifyvm', :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
end
end