(Java Ant Node Tomcat Oracle Subversion) on CentOS using Vagrant and headless VirtualBox

• Subversion: latest (v1.8.9+)
• Node.js: v0.12.4
• Java: JDK 8 update 45
• Tomcat: 7.0.53
• Ant: 1.9.5
• Oracle: Express Edition 11g Release 2 ⬇️

⬇️ : Requires manual download, see requirements section below

• Install VirtualBox from virtualbox.org

• Install Vagrant from vagrantup.com

• An internet connection is required to provision the box for the first time

• If JDK6 needs to be installed

  • Download Sun Java JDK 6 ( update 45 ) from here. Use the jdk-6u*-linux-x64-rpm.bin file.
  • Put it in the folder [projectroot]/install/java/ (Create directories if required)

• If Oracle needs to be installed

  • Download Oracle XE 11g from here. Use the oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm.zip file
  • Put in [projectroot]/install/oracle/ (Create directories if required)

• For Windows Hosts:

  • Ensure that you have VirtualBox directory in your %PATH%. Usually Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox for default installations
  • To use ssh on Windows OS, install ssh client like Cygwin, MinGW or Git, all of which contain an SSH client. Or use PuTTY SSH client the following authentication information:

Host: 127.0.0.1
Port: 2222
Username: vagrant

• Check out this project:

    git clone https://github.com/abhishekdev/vagrant-jantos.git
  

• Install [vbguest]:

    vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
  

• [Optional] Tweak configurations in [projectroot]/Vagrantfile, [projectroot]/puppet/manifests/base.pp

• Boot the machine from project root.

    vagrant up
  

• Connect to the new machine from the project root

    vagrant ssh	
  

• If required, password for root is vagrant

Connect to Oracle using SQL Developer at localhost:1521/XE as system with password manager. e.g. if you have sqlplus installed on the host machine you may connect with:

     sqlplus system/manager@//localhost:1521/XE

• Connect to the machine using vagrant ssh
• Startup Tomcat using the command $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
• Shutdown Tomcat using the command $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh

• Setup tomcat as a service OR a command
• Parametrize credentials for Oracle/Tomcat Admin