Configuration

You can configure how Parrot's Vagrantfile sets things up and adjust settings that built the generated virtual machine.

To configure Parrot, place a file called: config.yml into the root of the parrot directory. You can then add options and values into the file, for example, the defaults are:

sites: "sites"
databases: "databases"
memory: 2048
with_gui: false
ip: "192.168.50.4"
php_version: "5.3"
mysql_version: "5.5"
webroot_subdir: ""
box_name: "Parrot"

The syntax is yaml, in case you hadn't guessed.

The options that you can configure are:

• sites - This is the location relative to the Vagrantfile location that will be searched for directories to add a vhosts.
• databases - This is the location relative to the Vagrantfile location that will be searched for .sql files that will be automatically imported.
• memory - The amount of memory to provision the virtual machine with, in MB.
• with_gui - Show the virtual machine provider's GUI when the virtual machine is booted.
• ip - The IP address of the provisioned virtual machine. Note that this will need to be unique among running virtual machines on your host machine.
• php_version - The PHP version to install, valid values are: '5.3', '5.4' or '5.5'. Note that you will need to rebuild the VM if you change this option: vagrant destroy;vagrant up make sure you save any important data first!
• mysql_version - The MySQL version to install, valid values are: '5.5' or '5.6'. Note that you will need to rebuild the VM if you change this option: vagrant destroy;vagrant up make sure you save any important data first!
• webroot_subdir - A subdirectory within each sites directory to append to create the Apache vhost doc root. If you use this, you want a leading slash, but not a trailing one.
• box_name - The identifier of the VM. Useful if you want multiple instances of Parrot to run simultaneously.