Tips switching from LAMP to Vagrant?

[Mark R]

Howdy y'all,

For years I've been using a lamp stack running on an xubuntu desktop for wordpress plugin and theme development.  It works fine but I'd like to try vagrant to see what all the talk is about.

Most of the tutorials I'm finding are geared towards Mac or Windows users.  But, I have so far been able to install the latest versions of VirtualBox and Vagrant (not from the repos) and then clone VVV to a folder, install the two plugins;  hostupdater and trackers I think they were called. 

I've run vagrant up and vagrant provision and even vagrant up --provision after a few vagrant halt and even vagrant destroy.

No matter what I try, even uninstalling and reinstalling the software, whenever I go to vvv.dev or any other url that is supposed to go to a wordpress site, I just get this Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page. The wordpress sites appear to be installed in their folders within the VVV folder.

Can anyone point me towards a solution?  Or maybe something different from VVV that works well in linux?

I just need it to develop plugins & themes for wordpress. I just need the latest stable version.

I've spent two days now reading what seem to be very poor directions for setting up vagrant a hundred different ways.  Please, somebody point me to a script that makes this a little more quick and easy?  I keep reading about how much faster and easier this will make my development workflow but so far it's just been a huge timesink.

Thanks,

Mark

P.S. I know a few commands but I'm not a linux expert.

[Mark R]

Also tried vagrant ssh and it works fine. Turned on the gui and it works fine. I can log in and mess with the server at cmd line.  It all seems to be working but I just can't view any of the wordpress sites or even vvv.dev. 

[Robert Lilly]

My guess would be that your hosts file isn't getting updated with the URLs/IP address.