How to use database on Vagrant for testing with Codeception - vagrant

Question

I use Vagrant and Codception, but when i want to test application localy, I must do it on LAMP (or something like that) server. How can I use database on Vagrant?

Answer 1

All you need is just to setup access to your mysql server that runs on the guest machine (vagrant box) from the host and then to set appropriate database DNS in your codeception.yml config.
Here is some general instructions:
1) Allow your vagrant's mysql server listen all interfaces ssh to your box by setting 'bind-address' option in mysql's my.cnf config and change it's value to 0.0.0.0
2) Grant appropriate privileges to mysql user that will be used to connect to database from the host.
You can do this running following SQL commands using mysql client
USE mysql;
GRANT ALL ON *.* to root#'192.168.0.1' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypass';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
where root and mypass - your database user which will be used from codeception to connect to database and its password and 192.168.0.1 - the ip of the host (read how get host's ip for your gest here)
3) Restart vagrant's mysql server
4) To test connection to vagrant's mysql from the host run
mysql -h 192.168.33.10 -P 3306 -u root -p
(Here 192.168.33.10 - ip of my running vagrant box)
5) Set up DNS in codeception.yml file, e.g.
modules:
config:
Db:
dsn: 'mysql:host=192.168.33.10;dbname=MyDB'
user: 'root'
password: 'mypass'