Welcome to servant’s documentation!

servant is a custom Vagrant virtual machine which offers a straightforward and easy to use web-development system based on services like Apache, PHP (FPM), MySQL and phpMyAdmin, but isolated from your host system. Primary goal is to provide a consistent dev environment for developers or employees of a small company/startup.

Features

• Isolated from OS X host system (OS updates won’t affect the dev services, ever)
• Performant (PHP-FPM and OPcache module enabled)
• Easily add and remove projects (virtual hosts), servant automatically creates the necessary web server configurations as well as a MySQL database
• Automatically write/update /etc/hosts file on your Mac
• Supports PHP 5.6 and alternatively 5.5
• Supports MySQL 5.6 and alternatively 5.5

Getting started

• Requirements
• Installation
• General
  • Start/create virtual machine
  • Shutdown/end VM
  • Login via SSH
  • Reload servant

Usage

• Virtual hosts
  • Access document root
  • Create new virtual hosts
  • Delete virtual hosts
  • Customizations
• MySQL databases
  • System credentials
  • phpMyAdmin
  • Adminer
  • Create MySQL backups/dumps
  • Import MySQL backups/dumps
  • Destruction backups
• PHP
  • Default settings
  • phpinfo()
  • Customizations
• Configuration file
  • server.ip
  • server.cpus
  • server.memory
  • server.swap
  • server.timezone
  • mysql.root_password
  • mysql.version
  • php.version

Indices and tables

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