Setting up a ubuntu for my development enviroment

So I'm experimenting with a new development environment - this one is a ubuntu 20.04 running inside of Oracle VM Virtual Box. The initial installation was done following the cookbook from Abhishek Prakash.

Initial VM setup

• Download and install VirtualBox
• Download the ISO for Ubuntu
• Start Virtual Box and create a new VM - I specified 4GB memory, 4 processor and approx 60GB Hard Disc
• Start the VM using the ISO image and complete the Ubuntu installation

Development Environment Setup

• Install fossil using sudo apt install fossil
• Install ant using sudo apt install ant
• Install npm using sudo apt install npm
• Install php 7.4 using sudo apt install php7.4
• Create directory for the website development mkdir website
• Clone the website fossil and open it:
  • fossil clone http://david:password@virtual.internal:7780/website website.fossil
  • cd website
  • fossil open ../website.fossil
• Install prereq npm packages:
  • sudo npm -g install jshint@2.11
  • sudo npm -g install qunit@2.10
  • sudo npm -g install ajv-cli@4.0
• Test the build by
  • cd build
  • ant rebuild-all

WordPress setup

• Install prereqs by sudo apt install apache2 mysql-server libapache2-mod-php php-mysql
• Configure and enable apache2 by
  • sudo systemctl start apache2
  • sudo systemctl enable apache2
  • sudo ufw allow in "Apache Full"
• Configure mysql and setup a database for wordpress by
  • sudo mysql_secure_installation
  • sudo mysql -u root -p and enter these commands:
    • CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
    • CREATE USER wordpress IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '12345';
    • GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress'@'%';
    • quit
• Install php extensions used by wordpress using sudo apt install php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-intl php-zip
• Restart apache2 using sudo systemctl restart apache2
• Install curl using sudo apt install curl
• Download wordpress using curl -O https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
• Extract the archive and move under apache:
  • tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
  • sudo mv wordpress /var/www/html
  • sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress
  • sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/wordpress
• Setup the wordpress config:
  • cd /var/www/html/wordpress
  • sudo mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
  • Edit wp-config.php to setup the credentials for the database
• Setup the apache2 config for wordpress:
  • sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf
  • Make the contents to these lines:

    <Directory /var/www/html>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride All
            Require all granted
    </Directory>
    <VirtualHost *:80>
            ServerName wordpress
            ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
            DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
            ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
            CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
    </VirtualHost>
    

  • Check the config via: apache2ctl -t
  • Enable it with sudo a2ensite wordpress
  • Disable the default site with sudo a2dissite 000-default
  • Activate the new apache2 configuration with sudo systemctl restart apache2
• Complete the wordpress install by browsing the image's website

phpMyAdmin installation

• Install phpmyadmin via sudo apt install phpmyadmin
• You may need to enable the apache2 conf via:
  • sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf
  • sudo a2enconf phpmyadmin
  • sudo systemctl reload apache2