My first chef cookbook to add locales to a Debian Vagrant VM

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Dan Hart

My Vagrant VM base box only has en_US.UTF-8 installed by default and I recently required en_GB.UTF-8. So I created this chef cookbook to install the locale automatically. It has the ability to take an array of locales via the default[:localegen][:lang] attribute. Continue reading →

Vagrant and VirtualBox, modified files do not update when viewed in either NGINX or Apache

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dan Hart

I recently got to grips with using Vagrant for web development. The VM environment I was able to create mirrors the one I created on our production servers at work. I also decided to go the whole-hog and create my own Debian Squeeze base box from scratch with the latest versions of VirtualBox Guest Additions, Ruby, OS updates etc. For a copy of it feel free to email me. Continue reading →