eyp-developers/europa

The development environment for EYP Developers

Europa

This package is based on Vaprobash and Laravel Homestead., _(*1)

Prerequisites/Dependencies

Before you get started with setting up the environment, make sure you have Composer, Vagrant and VirtualBox installed., _(*2)

Also, if you don't already, make sure composer is installed globally. If you're doing a fresh installation, simply run, _(*3)

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

If the mv command fails, run it with sudo., _(*4)

Before getting to setup, make sure ~/.composer/vendor/bin is in your PATH. This can be done by calling, _(*5)

PATH=$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin

Setup

Getting yourself up and running with the Europa development box is super easy, it's just a few commands away., _(*6)

First, install the Europa repository globally by calling, _(*7)

composer global require eyp-developers/europa ~0.9

When this is done, the europa commands should be available to you. Now, to get your provisioning settings ready, call europa init, _(*8)

This will place the .europa directory in your home folder (~/.europa), which contains the configuration file. To make configuration setup easier for you, there's a command. If you want to change anything regarding the setup, call, _(*9)

europa edit

In the file, europa.yaml, you will find several options. For the complete list of options, please see Configuration. Configure to your liking, and be aware that there are more variables you can set than just the ones in the default., _(*10)

Once you're satisfied with your configuration, you can call, _(*11)

europa up

For those familiar with Vagrant, this is the same as calling vagrant up in the directory of the box. This will set up the database, configure the sites defined in the config, and run a few more provisioners such as installing php 5.6 and git., _(*12)