Configuration and Usage</h1>
<h2 style=" text-align: center;">By Chris Koeritz</h2>
<h3 style=" text-align: center;"> Vintage: cakelampvm v002
- Updated: 2017-11-10</h3>
+ Updated: 2017-11-16</h3>
+ <p>The cakelampvm project provides a virtualbox VM that acts as an "internet
+ in a bottle". The virtual machine provides DNS services (<a title="dns server"
+ href="http://www.bind9.net/">bind9</a>), a Web server (<a title="patchy"
+ href="https://httpd.apache.org/">Apache2</a>), a full <a title="ubuntu means compassion and humanity"
+ href="https://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> <a title="it's pronounced leenoox"
+ href="https://www.linuxfoundation.org/">Linux</a> desktop environment,
+ the <a title="flux is change" href="http://fluxbox.org/">Fluxbox</a> <a
+ title="a better windows" href="https://www.x.org/">X window manager</a>,
+ and a suite of tools called the <a title="feisty meow® concerns ltd. website"
+ href="https://feistymeow.org/">Feisty Meow® codebase</a>
+ <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
+ . Together, these services provide you with a very flexible and
+ powerful testbed for web development, especially suited for <a title="it's cake"
+ href="https://cakephp.org/">CakePHP</a>.</p>
+ <p>todo: arrange gritty details to back.</p>
+ <p>TOC GOES HERE.</p>
<h6> </h6>
- <h2>Basic info for the guest VM</h2>
+ <h2><span style="text-decoration: underline;">G</span>uest VM Configuration</h2>
<ul>
- <li>hostname: cakelampvm.com</li>
+ <li>hostname: <a title="the vm's website, when configured properly" href="https://cakelampvm.com/">cakelampvm.com</a></li>
<li>local IP address: 10.28.42.20</li>
- <li>services: DNS (bind9), apache2, fluxbox X windowing system, gnome
- display manager</li>
+ <li>services: DNS (bind9), apache2, fluxbox X windowing system, <a title="not just in the garden"
+ href="https://www.gnome.org/">gnome display manager</a></li>
<li>main user: developer (password distributed separately)</li>
<li>mysql root password: (password distributed separately)</li>
</ul>
+ <h2>Powering up with the Feisty Meow® scripts</h2>
+ <p>[First, let me drop the registered trademark symbol from here on
+ in. I hope its presence above has been sufficiently clear for legal
+ purposes, but now it will just get in the way. Also, capitalization
+ really bores me, and it's the feisty meow codebase anyhow, so that's how
+ it will be written henceforth.]</p>
+ <p>The feisty meow scripts are a cohesive bash scripting environment for
+ getting a variety of tasks done. The scripts recently incorporated
+ the 'avbash' collection from Saco Designs, which provides tools for
+ bringing up CakePHP web sites and managing the collection of repositories
+ for those sites. Each website is considered an "application", and
+ the application name itself (e.g. "winterportlibrary") can often provide
+ all the details for "powering up" the site. The feisty meow team has
+ added additional scripts for managing DNS domains and Apache websites that
+ provide the capability to "stand up" an entire website around an
+ application, with accompanying domain.</p>
+ <p>The scripts for now are documented separately within the Feisty Meow
+ codebase. The <a title="quickstart" href="https://feistymeow.org/feisty_meow/readme.txt">Feisty
+ Meow readme</a> file provides some valuable information on configuring
+ the codebase. If you have the cakelampvm, then this has already been
+ done for you on the vm in the developer account. The script
+ documentation is available in the UHHHHHH page of something..</p>
<h2>How to set up virtualbox for your host PC</h2>
<ol>
<li>Download and install virtualbox:
specific vm).</li>
<li> Click on the "Network" tab.</li>
<li> Choose the "Host-only Networks" tab from within "Network".</li>
- <li> Click the plus icon to add a new host-only network.</li>
+ <li> Click the plus icon to add a new host-only network, or if there is
+ already a Host-only network, then edit it.</li>
<li>Set the "Adapter" parameters:<br>
IPv4 Address: 10.28.42.1<br>
IPv4 Network Mask: 255.255.255.0<br>
These are my settings, with IPv6 left disabled:<br>
<img alt="nat net config" src="images/nat_network_config.png"></li>
</ol>
+ <h2>Start up the VM</h2>
+ <p>Using the virtualbox interface, you should now be able to start your
+ virtual machine. Virtualbox will complain if it detects any
+ remaining configuration problems in the VM, but it should start
+ normally. The Linux boot sequence will show many lines of text,
+ before bringing up a black console window with a login dialog.</p>
+ <p>You can log in directly on the VM console with the developer account, but
+ it is generally more useful to connect to the cakelampvm over ssh.
+ If the networking has been established properly, you should be able to do
+ this with:</p>
+ <pre>ssh developer@cakelampvm.com (or equivalent with your ssh client)</pre>
+ <p>And then provide the password to log in.</p>
+ <p>A feature called "X forwarding" is enabled, so if you start graphical
+ applications on the VM, you can display them from an appropriately
+ configured host. (If you're running Linux as the host for the VM,
+ you can definitely run remote windows. Windows may not support
+ that.)</p>
+ <p>#### check this!!!</p>
<h2>Using the guest VM's DNS services</h2>
<p>The cakelampvm has been set up to provide a DNS server which will answer
name requests for all of the sites that the VM hosts.</p>
<pre>ping cakelampvm.com</pre>
<pre>ping defaultcake.cakelampvm.com</pre>
<pre>ping mapsdemo.cakelampvm.com</pre>
+ <h3>Setting up DNS on Windows</h3>
+ <p>The ipconfig tool will provide helpful information about your current
+ networking and DNS configuration:</p>
+ <pre>ipconfig --all</pre>
+ <p>The DNS configuration on Windows is somewhat byzantine. The pipe
+ characters ('|') below are used to separate the menus or tabs or dialogs
+ to traverse. Follow this path to get to the DNS config:</p>
+ <pre>Control Panel | Network & Sharing | click WiFI or Ethernet link near top right | click Adapter Settings on left | click on specific network device to modify | select Properties</pre>
+ <p><br>
+ </p>
+ <p><br>
+ </p>
+ <p><br>
+ </p>
<h2>Editing files on the guest VM from the host</h2>
<p>On the host computer, look for the guest vm as a networked computer
called cakelampvm. This should provide some network shares using
projects / feisty_meow.git / blobdiff