User:Mainframe98/Vagrant on Windows

This guide attempts to list all the required steps to install MediaWiki-Vagrant on a windows machine.

Pre installation steps

 * 1) Check if you meet the requirements:
 * 2) * Installed version of Windows is 64 bit
 * 3) * Hyper-V is disabled - Required to use VirtualBox, Hyper-V support might be unstable
 * 4) * Hardware Virtualization Technology (VT-x or AMD-V) in the BIOS is enabled and the computer supports Hardware Virtualization
 * 5) Download the software required
 * 6) * Git - Not required if you download mediawiki-vagrant from Gerrit/github directly, in which case, use one of the links below
 * 7) ** tar.gz from GitHub
 * 8) ** zip from GitHub
 * 9) ** tar.gz from Gerrit
 * 10) * VirtualBox - Not required if you want to use Hyper-V
 * 11) * Vagrant

Installation

 * 1) Install Vagrant and if downloaded Git and VirtualBox
 * 2) * If you want to use ssh from the windows command line, install Git using the  installation option when installing Git. This is not required, as you may use another ssh client like PuTTY instead. Please do note that not using this installation option causes Vagrant to display an error about a missing ssh client. This message may be ignored.
 * 3) Open a command prompt (cmd, Powershell or Git) and navigate to C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant
 * 4) Clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/vagrant by using
 * 5) Run setup.bat which is located in the newly cloned folder
 * 6) Run vagrant hiera mediawiki::branch. Add a release number (REL1_27 for 1.27.0) to specify the version, omit to use latest
 * 7) Run Vagrant up

Work around

 * Upgrade git to 2.11 by running:
 * sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
 * sudo apt-get update
 * sudo apt-get install git
 * Run  on the Virtual machine
 * Run Vagrant provision</tt>

Errors
Relevant information from running vagrant up</tt>, Cloning mediawiki/core fails, and other packages that use mediawiki as dependency fail as a result too. ==> default: Notice: /Stage[main]/Mediawiki/Git::Clone[mediawiki/core]/Exec[git_clone_mediawiki/core]/returns: Cloning into '/vagrant/mediawiki'... ==> default: Notice: /Stage[main]/Mediawiki/Git::Clone[mediawiki/core]/Exec[git_clone_mediawiki/core]/returns: error: RPC failed; result=56, HTTP code = 200 ==> default: Notice: /Stage[main]/Mediawiki/Git::Clone[mediawiki/core]/Exec[git_clone_mediawiki/core]/returns: fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly ==> default: Notice: /Stage[main]/Mediawiki/Git::Clone[mediawiki/core]/Exec[git_clone_mediawiki/core]/returns: fatal: early EOF ==> default: Notice: /Stage[main]/Mediawiki/Git::Clone[mediawiki/core]/Exec[git_clone_mediawiki/core]/returns: fatal: index-pack failed ==> default: Error: /usr/bin/git clone --recurse-submodules --branch 'REL1_27' https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git /vagrant/mediawiki returned 128 instead of one of [0] ==> default: Error: /Stage[main]/Mediawiki/Git::Clone[mediawiki/core]/Exec[git_clone_mediawiki/core]/returns: change from notrun to 0 failed: /usr/bin/git clone --recurse-submodules --branch 'REL1_27' https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git /vagrant/mediawiki returned 128 instead of one of [0] ==> default: Notice: /Stage[main]/Mediawiki/Php::Composer::Install[/vagrant/mediawiki]/Exec[composer-install--vagrant-mediawiki]: Dependency Exec[git_clone_mediawiki/core] has failures: true