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 ====== Web Development ======
-The web development environment will be based on a Debian Wheezy OS, along with an HTTP server allowing to choose the PHP version to run on each virtual host through Phpfarm.
+The purpose here is to build a virtual machine that will be used as a LAMP web development environment.
+It will be based on a Debian Wheezy OS, with an Apache2 HTTP server, allowing to select a specific PHP version to run for each virtual host through PhpFarm run via suexec.\\
+We'll also add Xdebug to facilitate PHP code debugging.
+Finally, MySQL will also be installed as database management system.
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 ===== Create a Debian VM =====
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-Install a Debian Wheezy system from Debian's stable netboot-mini.iso image.\\
+Install a Debian Wheezy system from Debian's stable netboot-mini.iso image.
-<color coral>**TBC**</color>
-=== Add sysadmin to sudoers ===
+You can refer to [[vms:webdev:debian|this section of the wiki]] for more in-depth information on how to do this.
-After the system reboots at the end of the installation, login as root and install the sudo package:
+We'll have 2 adapters set up for this VM, one for local communication on a 172.20.20.x address and another one for internet access via DHCP.
-<code>
-# apt-get install sudo
-</code>
-As the sysadmin user was created during the Debian install process we only need to add it to the sudoers group:
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+==== Setup Network Adapters ====
+In our setup, we'll allocate the IP address 172.20.20.2 as our local access address, you could of course choose whatever fits your personal configuration requirements.\\
+On the first launch of our VM, an arbitrary DHCP address will be allocated to it's first interface, to find out its address, login to the VM using the regular VirtualBox window and type:
 <code>
-# usermod -G sudo -a <sysadmin>
+> ip addr show
+: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
+    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
+    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
+    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
+       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
+: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
+    link/ether 08:00:27:55:21:b7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
+    inet 10.0.7.61/24 brd 10.0.7.255 scope global eth0
+    inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe55:21b7/64 scope link
+       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
+: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
+    link/ether 08:00:27:6e:8b:7d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
 </code>
-Logout from the root session, login as sysadmin and test your sudo power:
+This will indicate the allocated DHCP address for your VM, here 10.0.7.61.
+From there you might want to use a terminal emulator to access the VM as it will usually be easier to use than the standard VM screen that has no scroll back or copy/paste functionality for example.
+Let's now fix the secondary (local) IP address. To this purpose, let's modify the // /etc/network/interfaces // file to make it look like what follows:
 <code>
-# exit
+> nano /etc/network/interfaces
-login: sysadmin
-Password:
+# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
-$ sudo ifconfig
+# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
+# The loopback network interface
+auto lo
+iface lo inet loopback
+# The primary network interface
+allow-hotplug eth0
+iface eth0 inet dhcp
+# Alias for static inner interface
+auto eth1
+iface eth1 inet static
+   name static alias LAN card
+   address 172.20.20.2
+   netmask 255.255.255.0
+   broadcast 172.20.20.255
+   network 172.20.20.0
 </code>
-If all is well, you should see the output from the ifconfig command.
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+It is now time to [[apache|install the HTTP Server (Apache2)]].
-It is now time to [[vms:apachedev|install the HTTP Server (Apache2)]].