CentOS 6.5 64-bit LAMP virtual machine ideal for local development

• Remi and EPEL repositories for Yum
• NFS, Sendmail, Git
• Apache 2 w/ mod_ssl, MySQL 5
• PHP 5 w/ extensions mysql gd xml mbstring mcrypt
• NodeJS, NPM, rubygems, Composer, Laravel 4
• Sass, clean-css, uglify-js

Connectivity to VM's services, from Host OS:

• add to /etc/hosts -- 192.168.200.2 local
• NFS-sync'd folder created by Vagrant -- ~/sync
• database -- mysql -h192.168.200.2 -uroot -pvagrant
• as an alternate to 80 and 443, port 8081 is "open" for TCP requests

To add an Apache VirtualHost:

• add to /etc/hosts -- 192.168.200.2 example.local
• vagrant ssh or ssh root@local
• add VirtualHost definition -- /etc/httpd/conf.d/example.local.conf
• sudo service httpd restart

This VM is packaged as base.box

To use it, open Terminal, cd box then: vagrant up

The deflate "output filter" for Apache has been enabled for all requests except common image formats. The timezone for PHP has been set to America/New_York and zlib.output_compression has been turned On. The screen utility may be used to spawn NodeJS applications in a vagrant ssh session. Similarly, the artisan tool for Laravel may be used in a terminal session. The Sass "gem" has been installed on the VM as an alterative to executing it on the Host OS. The NodeJS packages clean-css and uglify-js are installed globally and may be executed as cleancss and uglifyjs to minify .css and .js files, respectively. For more information, see: GoalSmashers/clean-css and mishoo/UglifyJS2