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page_title: "Provisioning - Getting Started"
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sidebar_current: "gettingstarted-provisioning"
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---
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# Provisioning
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Alright, so we have a virtual machine running a basic copy of Ubuntu and
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we can edit files from our machine and have them synced into the virtual machine.
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Let's now serve those files using a webserver.
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We could just SSH in and install a webserver and be on our way, but then
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every person who used Vagrant would have to do the same thing. Instead,
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Vagrant has built-in support for _automated provisioning_. Using this
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feature, Vagrant will automatically install software when you `vagrant up`
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so that the guest machine can be repeatably created and ready-to-use.
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## Installing Apache
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We'll just setup [Apache](http://httpd.apache.org/) for our basic project,
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and we'll do so using a shell script. Create the following shell script
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and save it as `bootstrap.sh` in the same directory as your Vagrantfile:
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```bash
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
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apt-get update
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apt-get install -y apache2
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rm -rf /var/www
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ln -fs /vagrant /var/www
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```
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Next, we configure Vagrant to run this shell script when setting up
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our machine. We do this by editing the Vagrantfile, which should now
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look like this:
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```ruby
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Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
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config.vm.box = "hashicorp/precise32"
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config.vm.provision :shell, path: "bootstrap.sh"
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end
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```
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The "provision" line is new, and tells Vagrant to use the `shell` provisioner
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to setup the machine, with the `bootstrap.sh` file. The file path is relative
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to the location of the project root (where the Vagrantfile is).
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## Provision!
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After everything is configured, just run `vagrant up` to create your
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machine and Vagrant will automatically provision it. You should see
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the output from the shell script appear in your terminal. If the guest
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machine is already running from a previous step, run `vagrant reload --provision`,
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which will quickly restart your virtual machine, skipping the initial
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import step. The provision flag on the reload command instructs Vagrant to
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run the provisioners, since usually Vagrant will only do this on the first
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`vagrant up`.
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After Vagrant completes running, the web server will be up and running.
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You can't see the website from your own browser (yet), but you can verify
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that the provisioning works by loading a file from SSH within the machine:
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```
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$ vagrant ssh
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...
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vagrant@precise32:~$ wget -qO- 127.0.0.1
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```
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This works because in the shell script above we installed Apache and
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setup the default `DocumentRoot` of Apache to point to our `/vagrant`
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directory, which is the default synced folder setup by Vagrant.
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You can play around some more by creating some more files and viewing
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them from the terminal, but in the next step we'll cover networking
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options so that you can use your own browser to access the guest machine.
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