All overwhelming and confusing

[Chris Christou]

Hello to the Vagrant group. 

Please can you help me as I am now overwhelmed and confused. 

Does anyone know of a STEP-BY-STEP beginners guide to installing Vagrant. 

I know how this looks but some of the tutorials out there are quite heavy and cause more confusion than understanding.

Please can someone help me, I new to Vagrant. 

Thanks 

[Seth Vargo]

Hi Chris,

The Vagrant documentation includes a step-by-step guide from installation to finish: https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/index.html

Best,

Seth

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[Torben Knerr]

Hi Chris,

I'd recommend the official one here:
https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/

HTH,
Torben

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[Chris Christou]

Hey guys thanks for your suggestions, they have been a big help. 

I'm now getting this message: Failed to connect to www.dropbox.com:443; No error

how can i overcome this? 

My organisation has a firewall, which i think this is what it is. 

Please can you assist? 

[Umair Chagani]

What are u using Dropbox for?

[Chris Christou]

I'm not i followed the instructions in this tut http://youtu.be/ZGUEjZckijA and the error came up in the command line

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[Umair Chagani]

you should really just use https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/

[Chris Christou]

I did but i went wrong and found that tut

[Greg Barker]

So describe for us what you tried to do and where it went wrong

[Chris Christou]

So i download:

• Virtual box then Vagrant for windows and both are placed in the C [as I have no admin rights work], the file is names itself HashiCorp. 
  
• I then opened bit-bash and get confused from here 

To be honest even the Project setup is not easy to follow which is why i looked for an actual tutorial, I'm sill stuck on this page: https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/project_setup.html

I know how it looks, but I'm so new to this. 

 

[Chris Christou]

Hi

I've tried to start again so I found this online https://kerrygallagher.co.uk/vagrant-for-beginners/

When I get to step 4 I get this error message, screen shot is attached. 

On 17 January 2015 at 01:29, Greg Barker <fle...@fletchowns.net> wrote:

[Bogdan B]

It seems you're behind a firewall that doesn't allow downloading of the base box.

[Chris Christou]

Thanks Bogdan that looks like what it is. 

Do you know ways to overcome this? 

What exactly do I ask my IT department? 

Thanks again. 

[Bogdan B]

You can try to manually download that file (http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box)
If that works then edit you Vagranfile and add
config.vm.box_url = "c:/path/to/where/box/is/precise32.box"

after the line config.vm.box = ...

If you're unable to download manually then you should send that link to IT and ask why you're not able to download.

[Chris Christou]

Hi Bogdan.

Thanks for your help on this I created a file in my C drive did a vagrant init I added the the downloaded precise32.box, placed it in the C drive folder as well. 

Then I tried you tip: 

• config.vm.box = "precise32.box" 
• it comes back reading sh.exe ":$: command not found"

Thanks for all your help though.

C 

[Greg Barker]

Hey Chris -

Are you typing the config.vm.box = "precise32.box" line into your command prompt? That's a line you need to put in the Vagrantfile that vagrant init generated for you. Open up the Vagrantfile with a text editor and make the appropriate changes there.

If you get stuck, post back here with what went wrong!

Greg

[Chris Christou]

Thanks guys, I will feed back on Wednesday as I am on training tomorrow.

[Chris Christou]

Hi Greg, yes that is exactly what I was doing, where would I place it in the vagrant file? 

Forgive my ignorance here. 

C  

On 19 January 2015 at 20:17, Greg Barker <fle...@fletchowns.net> wrote:

[Bogdan B]

Hi Chris,

Just edit Vagrantfile and add that box_url line after .box.

  config.vm.box = "base"
  config.vm.box_url = "precise32.box"

If 'precise32.box' is not in the same directory as your Vagrantfile then you need a full path like c:/path/to/file

[Chris Christou]

Hi I did that [file attached]and then tried $vagrant up not command not found. 

I'm so sorry about this. 

[Shawn McCarthy]

Chris, you are typing :
vagrant up
and not
$vagrant up

right?

The $ means its a command prompt, you should not type the $.

[Chris Christou]

Hi Shawn

the $ is already there, so I just type vagrant up and it says command not found. 

Still lost 

[Chris Christou]

Shawn hi

I typed in Vagrant up and got this command

there are errors in the configuration of this machine Please fix the following errors and try again:

vm

* A box must be specified. 

 I thought I did. 

Chris 

On 21 January 2015 at 14:31, Shawn McCarthy <shawn.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Greg Barker]

Post your whole Vagrantfile for us to look at

[Chris Christou]

Hi, thanks, here it is

[Bogdan B]

Hi Chris,

You need both lines as in the attached file (you can use the file directly)

[Chris Christou]

Thanks so much Bogdan, now it is saying 

The box failed to unpackage properly. Please verify that the box file you're trying to add is not corrrupted and try again. The output from attempting to unpackage (if any): 

x box--disk1.vmdk: Truncated tar achrive bsdtar.EXE exit delayed from previous errors. 

 I downloaded a box a few days ago as suggested and placed it in the same area. 

Thanks  

[Bogdan B]

Are you sure it was fully downloaded ? That box should have around 1GB or more.

[Chris Christou]

I think so, I got it from the link you provided me with on Monday (http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box) 

But it looks like it is not 1GB. 

Sorry about this, and thank you for your help. 

[Bogdan B]

I've just checked and it has 282MB.

Also did a test by using the Vagrantfile provided and the downloaded box and everything worked fine.

[Chris Christou]

Hi 

No the precise.box is 5KB, would you like me to send it to you? 

thanks 

[Bogdan B]

That means your download failed, maybe for the same reason your normal setup fails.

Check with your IT guys why are you not able to download that file.

[Chris Christou]

I did, and when they downloaded it for me that is what was downloaded. 

is this a correct URL http://hashicorp-files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box

They seem to be convinced that was downloaded correctly. 

I need to download the box individually not by the command line. 

[Bogdan B]

It should have 282MB, it wasn't downloaded correctly if it has 4KB :)

[Chris Christou]

Yep you were right [i owe you an apology] IT re-installed now I have this screen, and things look correct. 

Take a look

Thanks for this,

Do i follow the next steps? 

where to from here? 

Do you have a website I can donate to? 

[Bogdan B]

Glad that was sorted :)

"where to from here? " - well.. that really depends on what are you trying to do exactly and for what do you need Vagrant :)

Most people use it as a 'production like'  setup for web development replacing XAMPP/MAMP/WAMP.

[Chris Christou]

Bogdan , do you have a website i could donate to as you have been a big help. 

Logging in this morning something has gone wrong: 

I did a vagrant up command and now it reads 

Your VM has become "inaccessible" unfortunately this is a critical error . . . . . . 

I've attached an image.

Sorry if i am a pain. 

Like I said if you have website, please let me donate. 

You have been a big help. 

[Bogdan B]

Hi Chris,
I don't have a website and no need to donate.

I will further reply with further details in private as this falls a bit into 'spam' for the purpose of this list.