node-box

Building a node-box

1. Install VirtualBox
2. Install Vagrant
3. Install Git
   • Windows: GitHub for Windows or msysgit
   • Mac: GitHub for Mac or install via Homebrew
   • Linux: sudo apt-get install git or sudo yum install git
4. (Windows only) Install PuTTY
5. Clone this repository
   • GUI: Click the Clone in Desktop button on the GitHub page
   • Command-Line: git clone https://github.com/ProfAvery/node-box.git
6. (Optionally) Edit Vagrantfile
   • Change BITNESS to 64 if you have a 64-bit machine
   • Increase MB to 1024 if your machine has enough free memory
7. vagrant up (This may take a while)
8. Log in
   • Mac and linux: vagrant ssh (UNIX)
   • Windows: See below

Configuring PuTTY on Windows

1. See Connect to Your Vagrant Virtual Machine with PuTTY for instructions on connecting.
2. Once you are able to connect successfully, see PuTTY: How to load, save or delete server connection settings to save your connection information.
3. Finally, to fix the line drawing characters used by NPM, see PuTTY, TMUX and NPM

Shared directories

• The repository will be shared as /vagrant
• The shared subdirectory will be symlinked from ~vagrant/shared

Additional configuration details

• The username and password are both vagrant
• Ports will be forwarded from the host machine as follows:

Host port	Guest port
2222	22
8000	80
3000	3000
8080	8080

Shutting down

When you are finished, you can stop the machine by running vagrant suspend or vagrant halt

If you want to destroy and re-build the machine completely, run vagrant destroy but make sure that any data you want to save has been copied to ~vagrant/shared first