for folks with Vagrant

.gitignore

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 node_modules
 .sass-cache
+.vagrant

Vagrantfile

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+# set up a Vagrantbox to run the repl
+# check it out at http://phpepl.dev after running 'vagrant up'
+
+Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
+  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
+
+  # Remove the default Vagrant directory sync
+  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
+
+  config.vm.synced_folder "./", "/var/www/public", id: "vagrant-root",
+    owner: "vagrant",
+    group: "www-data",
+    mount_options: ["dmode=775,fmode=664"]
+
+  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.56.101"
+  config.ssh.forward_agent = true
+
+  # host dns registration
+  # you'll need "vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater" for the site name to be added to your hosts resolver file automatically
+  config.vm.hostname = "phpepl.dev"
+  if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-hostsupdater")
+    config.hostsupdater.remove_on_suspend = true
+  end
+
+  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
+    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
+    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 512]
+  end
+
+  # install apache and php
+  config.vm.provision :shell, :path => "vagrant-bootstrap.sh"
+end

vagrant-bootstrap.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# simple provisioning for php and apache
+
+sudo apt-get -y install apache2 php5
+# fix the docroot
+sudo sed -i 's/\/var\/www\/html/\/var\/www\/public/g' /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
+sudo service apache2 restart