This bash script makes it easy to spin up a new WordPress site using Varying Vagrant Vagrants.

Place vvv in any folder included in your PATH environment variable. To add a folder to PATH:

1. Open ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_profile)

2. If PATH is not defined anywhere in the file, add this line:

    export PATH=/path/to/folder:$PATH
   

   Where /path/to/folder is the path to the folder containing the script.

3. Changes take effect in a new Terminal session.

4. To run the script from anywhere, open the file and uncomment the line at the top defining path. Set that to the root folder of VVV on your machine.

Type vvv in the command line to use. When running the site setup or teardown wizards, you can include the desired name of your site's directory as a parameter. Example: vvv new testsite

This lists all the sites currently in VVV's www folder.

Creating a site does the following:

• Halts Vagrant (if running)
• Creates a web root for the site in the www folder containing two files: vvv-init.sh and vvv-hosts
  • vvv-init.sh tells Vagrant to create a database if one does not exist and download or update WordPress from trunk the next time Vagrant is provisioned
  • vvv-hosts contains the hosts entry to give your site a nice custom domain (the domain is set in the wizard)
• Creates a file in the nginx-config folder to handle server settings for your site
• Restarts Vagrant with vagrant up --provision

Provisioning Vagrant takes a couple of minutes, but this is a crucial step as it checks out WordPress trunk into your site's htdocs directory.

Adding the filesonly parameter to this command will do everything in the list above except restart Vagrant. This is useful for testing the script quickly (as provisioning Vagrant takes a while).

Deleting a site does the following:

• Halts Vagrant (if running)
• Deletes the site's web root (which deletes the vvv-init.sh and vvv-hosts files as well)
• Deletes the file in the nginx-config folder pertaining to the site

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