A vagrantfile and provisions script for a local LAMP development environment. This installs PHP7.2, MySQL, and Apache. The provision script also includes additional services that can be installed. The VM is configured to run a single site from /var/www/html/ in the the guest (which is mapped to ./webroot).

provision.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

######################################################################
## READ ME
## Review the script before running it. Uncomment any additional
## packages/settings needed, and comment out what is not needed.
##
## What is uncommented here by default represents my own standard 
## settings. 
######################################################################

echo -e "\n\n============================================\n"
echo -e "Begin provisioning.\n"
echo -e "============================================\n\n"


echo -e " --> Updating the server.\n\n"
sudo apt-get update >/dev/null 2>&1
sudo apt-get upgrade >/dev/null 2>&1

echo -e "\n --> Installing cURL.\n\n"
sudo apt-get install -y curl >/dev/null 2>&1

echo -e "\n --> Installing MySQL tools.\n\n"
sudo apt-get install -y mysql-client >/dev/null 2>&1

# echo -e "\n --> Installing Htop, a process monitoring tool.\n\n"
# sudo apt-get install -y htop >/dev/null 2>&1

# echo -e "\n --> Installing git and git-flow \n\n"
# sudo apt-get install -y git  >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y git-flow  >/dev/null 2>&1

# echo -e "\n --> Installing make. \n\n"
# sudo apt-get install -y make  >/dev/null 2>&1

# echo -e "\n --> Installing vim. \n\n"
# sudo apt-get install -y vim  >/dev/null 2>&1

# echo -e "\n --> Installing SASL libraries. \n\n"
# sudo apt-get install -y libsasl2-dev >/dev/null 2>&1

# echo -e "\n --> Installing redis. \n\n"
# sudo apt-get install -y redis-server >/dev/null 2>&1

# echo -e "\n --> Installing memcached. \n\n"
# sudo apt-get install -y memcached >/dev/null 2>&1

# echo -e "\n --> Installing wget. \n\n"
# sudo apt-get install -y wget >/dev/null 2>&1

# echo -e "\n --> Installing GZip.\n\n"
# sudo apt-get install -y gzip >/dev/null 2>&1

## If using nginx, uncomment this and comment out the 'apache' stuff that follows.
# echo -e "\n --> Installing NGINX. \n\n"
# sudo apt-get install -y nginx
# sudo service nginx start

## if using apache, this should be uncommented, and commet out the 'nginx' stuff above.
echo -e "\n --> Installing Apache.\n\n"
sudo apt-get install -y apache2 >/dev/null 2>&1
echo "ServerName localhost" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

## In some cases PHP7.1 might be better suited, in which case simply change 7.2 to 7.1 should suffice.
echo -e "\n --> Installing PHP 7.2 and common modules.\n\n"
sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties >/dev/null 2>&1
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php >/dev/null 2>&1
sudo apt-get update >/dev/null 2>&1

sudo apt-get install -y php7.2 >/dev/null 2>&1
sudo apt-get install -y php-pear >/dev/null 2>&1
sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-curl >/dev/null 2>&1
sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-dev >/dev/null 2>&1
sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-gd >/dev/null 2>&1
sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-mbstring >/dev/null 2>&1
sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-zip >/dev/null 2>&1
sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-mysql >/dev/null 2>&1
sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-xml >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-cli >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-memcached >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-redis >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-imagick >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-gmp >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-json >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-mcrypt >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-mongodb >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-mysql >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-odbc >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-pgsql >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-sqlite3 >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get install -y php7.2-xsl >/dev/null 2>&1


echo -e "\n --> Installing MySQL server and configure it to use 'root' as password.\n\n"
sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password root'
sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password root'
sudo apt-get -q -y install mysql-server >/dev/null 2>&1
ROOT_DB_PASSWORD="mypass"

echo -e "\n --> Update MySQL configuration to make it accessible from host via root.\n"
echo -e "--> NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT SECURE AND FOR DEVELOPMENT ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!\n\n"

sed -i -e 's/127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0/' /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf

SQL="GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypass' WITH GRANT OPTION; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
mysql -uroot -p${ROOT_DB_PASSWORD} -e "${SQL}"

## Modify the timezone as needed.
echo -e "\n --> Set timezone for MySQL to 'America/Los_Angeles'. \n\n"
mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -uroot -p${ROOT_DB_PASSWORD} mysql
sudo sed -ri '/\[mysqld\]/ a\ default-time-zone = \x27America/Los_Angeles\x27' /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf


echo -e "\n --> Restarting services. \n\n"
sudo service mysql restart
sudo service apache2 reload

# echo -e "\n --> Installing Composer.\n\n"
# sudo curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
# sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer


# Set timezone (modify this if needed).
echo -e "\n --> Configuring time zone for the server. \n\n"
sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Los_Angeles
# Set up sync'ing for time.
sudo apt-get install -y ntp >/dev/null 2>&1


##
## Additional services that are not needed but may help in managing the server.
## Note that for webmin specifically, a port needs to be forwarded for it to work.
##
## WEBMIN
## ref.: https://doxfer.webmin.com/Webmin/Installation#apt-get_.28Debian.2FUbuntu.2FMint.29
## IMPORTANT: Make sure wget is being installed above. Credentials for webmin should be vagrant/vagrant.
## 
# echo -e "\n --> Installing Webmin.\n\n"
# sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webmin.list'
# sudo wget -qO - http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc | sudo apt-key add -
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install -y webmin >/dev/null 2>&1

## 
## PHPMYAdmin
## IMPORTANT: access php my admin using /phpmyadmin, and credentials are the same as mysql.
## 
# echo -e "\n --> Installing PHPMyAdmin. \n\n"
# sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/dbconfig-install boolean true'
# sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/app-password-confirm password ${ROOT_DB_PASSWORD}'
# sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/mysql/admin-pass password ${ROOT_DB_PASSWORD}'
# sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/mysql/app-pass password ${ROOT_DB_PASSWORD}'
# sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/reconfigure-webserver multiselect apache2'
#
# sudo apt-get install -y phpmyadmin >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/phpmyadmin.conf
# sudo service apache2 restart

##
## Elastic Search
## IMPORTANT: this may involve some work to get elastic search working correctly.
## see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/deb.html#deb-repo
##
# echo -e "\n --> Installing Java 8 and ElasticSearch. \n\n"
# sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get update >/dev/null 2>&1
# echo oracle-java8-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections
# sudo apt-get install -y -q oracle-java8-installer >/dev/null 2>&1
#
# sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https >/dev/null 2>&1
# echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-6.x.list
# sudo apt-get update >/dev/null 2>&1
# sudo apt-get -y install elasticsearch >/dev/null 2>&1
## Update binding to access elasticsearch from outside the VM
# sudo su - 	# switches to root (see last few comments of https://gist.github.com/maxivak/c318fd085231b9ab934e631401c876b1)
# sudo echo "network.host: 0.0.0.0" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml	# ref. https://qbox.io/blog/qbox-a-vagrant-virtual-machine-for-elasticsearch-2-x.
#
## Enable CORS for elasticsearch: not secure, this basically allows any source to access this instance of elasticsearch.
# sudo echo "http.cors.enabled: true" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
# sudo echo "http.cors.allow-origin: /https?:\/\/.*/" >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
#
## restart/start elasticsearch.
# sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch restart
#
## Set elasticsearch to start automatically.
# sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload
# sudo /bin/systemctl enable elasticsearch.service
# echo -e "Check that elasticsearch is running by trying 'curl http://localhost:9200/?pretty' from guest environ. \n\n"
## Note: this should return some JSON.

echo -e "\n --> Done \n\n"

echo -e "============================================ \n"
echo -e "Finished provisioning.\n"
echo -e "============================================\n\n"
echo -e "\n\n"

Vagrantfile

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

# All Vagrant configuration is done below. The "2" in Vagrant.configure
# configures the configuration version (we support older styles for
# backwards compatibility). Please don't change it unless you know what
# you're doing.

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"

  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 22, host: 2209         ## SSH
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 3306, host: 3309       ## MySQL (allows access to mysql from the host, change the host port to any available port)
  # config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 10000, host: 10000   ## Webmin, in case needed.
  # config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 9200, host: 9201     ## Elastic Search (the REST API) if needed.

  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10"          ## This can be whatever you want on 192.168.xxx.xxx net.

  config.vm.synced_folder "webroot", "/var/www/html"                ## access the default webroot on the guest from the host, where 'webroot' is a directory that exists on the same level as this vagrantfile, in this case.

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    # vb.name = "add name of the vm to be seen in virtualbox gui."  ## TODO: put a name to your VM here, or delete this line if a specific VM name is not important.
    # vb.memory = "4096"                                            ## to bump the memory available for the VM.
  end

  config.vm.provision :shell, path: "provision.sh"                  ## the provision file to run after the VM is ready.

end