Turbo Start : Symfony + Nginx + CentOS

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[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)

Install nginx :

[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ sudo yum install nginx
[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ sudo chkconfig nginx on
[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ sudo service nginx start

Install php-fpm :

[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ sudo yum install php-fpm
[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ sudo chkconfig php-fpm on
[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ sudo service php-fpm start

Install PHP :

[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ sudo yum install php
[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ sudo yum install php-pdo
[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ sudo yum install php-xml
[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ echo i like postgresql
[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ sudo yum install php-pgsql

Set PHP timezone :

[vagrant@centos65 ~]$ sudo vim /etc/php.ini

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How to create a CentOS 6.5 Vagrant box (with VirtualBox)

This guide is inspired from the Vagrant official documentation.

Versions

• Vagrant: 1.6.2
• VirtualBox: 4.3.12

Creation and configuration of the virtual machine

CentOS 6.5 installation

Launch VirtualBox and create a new VM with:

• CPU: 1 core
• Memory: 512 MB
• Storage : 200 GB (dynamically allocated)
• No audio, no USB

Tips for ~/.ssh/config file

You can add SSH client configurations that can ease your life a little bit. Here are some tips you could put in your ~/.ssh/config file.

Host *
HashKnownHosts no

Host *.example.com
ServerAliveInterval 300
ForwardX11 no
User me

Host *.example2.com

ServerAliveInterval 300
User anotherme

Installing PostgreSQL 9.3 on CentOS 6.5

PostgreSQL Installation

Basically, to install the latest version of PostgreSQL (9.3 as I write), you can follow the instructions in the PostgreSQL Wiki.

Post-installation commands

Initialize

Here is a difference from the wiki: I customize the call to the PostgreSQL script initdb (adapt the paths if needed):