HHVM Vagrant box

Ubuntu Precise box simply installing HHVM (nightly) via apt.

Requirements

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/vicb/hhvm-vagrant.git
$ cd hhvm-vagrant
$ vagrant up

Once the VM is booted you can log via SSH

$ vagrant ssh

The server root folder is /vagrant/www (on the map) which is the www folder on your host machine.

• The HHVM server is available at http://localhost:8080 on the host OS
• A MySQL server is installed. The root user is "root" with password "pa$$".

HHVM 3.0 Configuration

HHVM config files are in: /etc/hhvm/server.ini

To start hhvm: sudo service start hhvm. This will load the default config from server.ini

The access and error logs are available in /var/log/hhvm

$ vagrant ssh
$ tail -f /var/log/hhvm/access.log
$ tail -f /var/log/hhvm/error.log

WebServer

With HHVM 3.0, the inbuilt webserver support has been deprecated. HHVM should be used under fastcgi mode which is automatically configured in /etc/hhvm/server.ini

Installing Nginx

$ sudo apt-get install nginx

Setting up Nginx with HHVM If you installed Nginx after installing HHVM, it will automatically create a hhvm.conf file for you. You only need to create a site config for Nginx to load the config. This can be done by doing the following:

$ sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/vagrant

//  File /etc/nginx/sites-available/vagrant
server {
    root /vagrant;
    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    server_name localhost; # 192.168.33.10.xip.io if you are using Vaprobash

    include hhvm.conf;  # Include HHVM's configuration file for Nginx

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/vagrant /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/vagrant

Edit hhvm.conf and update fastcgi_param to point to your document root path on the vagrant box.

  fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME /vagrant/www$fastcgi_script_name;

Start Nginx

$ sudo service nginx start
$ curl http://localhost/index.php
    It Works!

Virtual Machine Management

When done just log out with ^D and suspend the virtual machine

$ vagrant suspend

then, resume to testing again

$ vagrant resume

Run

$ vagrant halt

to shutdown the virtual machine, and

$ vagrant up

to boot it again.

You can find out the state of a virtual machine anytime by invoking

$ vagrant status

Finally, to completely wipe the virtual machine from the disk destroying all its contents:

$ vagrant destroy

Credits

• https://github.com/adrienbrault/hhvm-vagrant
• https://github.com/javer/hhvm-vagrant-vm