osTicket vagrant server environment

This is what I use to write plugins, test things, write patches etc.

Built to assist with development, assumes you have or can clone osticket source into folder osticket

Based on ubuntu/xenial64 with Apache2, PHP 7.0 (libapache) and MySQL Server (5.7)

How to use

Install Vagrant (With Virtualbox or Hyperv etc)
Download this repo (git clone https://github.com/clonemeagain/osticket-vagrant)
Then, download/clone osTicket into a folder called osticket Either from source: git clone https://github.com/osTicket/osTicket osticket, or Release: http://osticket.com/download
Configure the variables in Vagrantfile with your environment details, Timezone/proxy server etc.
Configure the variables in provision.sh script.
Run the up command: vagrant up
Go make a coffee while it downloads Ubuntu, installs software & configures everything.

When it's done, and you see the message: Ready to Rock!, it should have a link, like http://localhost:8080 click that to start the install process.

If you've installed it, and configured it, and made a bunch of test tickets etc, simply export your database into the project root folder as dbname.sql where dbname is the name of your database. The provision script will detect it and install the database. If you also have an ost-config.php file inside /include/ then it will skip copying it.

Recommended Vagrant Plugins:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-proxyconf - Lets you use a local proxy server to cache install packages etc. Autoconfigures apt. link to repo
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest - Ensures the vm has the Virtualbox Guest Additions installed, and keeps them up to date. link to repo

Debugging:

Xdebug is enabled and installed by default (so, don't use this in production) Simply run a compatible debugger IDE on your host machine to start debugging! (it will connect back automatically, so, have a debugger using DBGP port 9000, like Eclipse)

View logs:

Open the folder "logs" in the project folder, or /var/www/html/logs on the vagrant VM

Scrap it and rebuild:

Run command vagrant destroy then vagrant up Regular rebuild (fast) vagrant up --provision You shouldn't need to rebuild it often, unless you're changing the provision script.

Todo:

I'm thinking of checking for the osticket folder, and if not present, downloading the source automatically. See if anyone is keen.

Requires git on vm

clonemeagain / osticket-vagrant