ILIAS Development Environment based on Vagrant & Puppet

This is a LAMP-based environment for ILIAS development. The ILIAS source can be downloaded automatically from github, svn, or SourceForge.

Prerequisites

• Vagrant
• Virtual Box

Instructions

1. Ensure Vagrant and Virtual Box are installed.

2. Clone this repository.

3. Open up terminal, change directory to the git repo root

4. Optional: If you don't want to clone the ILIAS source from github, or change cloning parameters (--depth=1 --branch=release_5-0), you have to change the puppet file modules/ilias/manifests/init.pp according to your desired source (SourceForge is quickest, github is more up to date, svn is no longer used by the ILIAS devs)

5. Start the vagrant box.

    $ vagrant up
   

You're all set up. You may restart the machine with vagrant reload. The ILIAS instance will be accessible at http://localhost:8888. From here you can begin to initially run the ILIAS setup procedure.

• Data Directory outside Webspace: /opt/ilias/iliasdata
• Path to Log File: /opt/ilias/shared/logs/ilias.log
• Create New Client ...

At later stages you probably adapt the Vagrant and Puppet configurations to your needs.

Features

• The puppet provisioner ensures that the newest ILIAS version has been downloaded from sourceforge.net, unzip and linked into the webroot.
• All necessary PHP libraries are ensured to be installed.
• MySQL Server is set up with the user "root" and password "ilias".
• The folder "shared" at the host system is mounted to "/opt/ilias/shared".
• ILIAS and Apache logs will be shared with the host system via "/opt/ilias/shared/logs"

Credits

The Vagrant configuration is based to some extend on "LAMP Stacks Made Easy with Vagrant & Puppet" (https://github.com/jrodriguezjr/puppet-lamp-stack.git) and also on the ILIAS Installation and Maintenance instructions for Ubuntu/Debian [http://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_pg_6531_367.html]