Drop Vagrant development boxes

[gbp]

What does this do?

Drop Vagrant development boxes

Why was this needed?

We are now using Docker for development instead.

Notes to reviewer

@garethrees are you okay with remove the Vagrantfile? As its of no use on M1 Macs I see no reason to keep it around as we can't test it. Going forward we need a plan on how to test OSs.

[garethrees]

Need to think about this a bit. It looks like it may be possible to use VirtualBox on M1 soon.

I'd like to both simplify what we maintain, but also get back to a place where we develop with dev/prod parity, which we're not really doing right now, but were much closer with the Vagrant setup.

Also need to consider future mySociety infrastructure direction.

[garethrees]

Looks like Rails is going to start generating a Dockerfile by default, so that's probably the way we want to go here.

[gbp]

In my recent install script changes I have been using UTM on my M1 mac, with the https://mac.getutm.app/gallery/debian-11-xfce sample image. Following https://alaveteli.org/docs/installing/script/ with some minor changes.

Login as the debian user and run:

sudo apt-get install curl
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mysociety/commonlib/master/bin/install-site.sh
sudo sh install-site.sh alaveteli alaveteli alaveteli.192.168.64.2.nip.io

The install will fail with:

Installing packages from repository packages file...
E: Unable to locate package wkhtmltox

So I become the alaveteli user and cd /var/www/alaveteli.192.168.64.2.nip.io/alaveteli. Checkout the develop branch, update git submodules and make these changes:

diff --git a/config/packages.generic b/config/packages.generic
index c57c7f05a..cb7c2bf55 100644
--- a/config/packages.generic
+++ b/config/packages.generic
@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ ttf-bitstream-vera
 unrtf
 unzip
 uuid-dev
-wkhtmltox
+wkhtmltopdf
 wv
 xapian-tools

Re-running the install script might error with:

Cloning or updating repository... updating... fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/var/www/localhost/alaveteli'
To add an exception for this directory, call:
git config --global --add safe.directory /var/www/alaveteli.192.168.64.2.nip.io/alaveteli

If so, change the install script by:

diff --git a/bin/install-site.sh b/bin/install-site.sh
index a231959..a2addf6 100755
--- a/bin/install-site.sh
+++ b/bin/install-site.sh
@@ -668,6 +668,6 @@ add_unix_user
 update_apt_sources
 # Remove one crippling package, if it's installed:
 apt-get -qq remove -y --purge apt-xapian-index >/dev/null || true
-clone_or_update_repository
+# clone_or_update_repository
 chown -R "$UNIX_USER"."$UNIX_USER" "$DIRECTORY"
 run_site_specific_script

And now re-running the install script again should finally now work.

Next, we need to disable the default nginx site rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabeled/default. Then reboot sudo reboot or restart the services sudo systemctl reload nginx & sudo systemctl start alaveteli-thin.

The site should be accessible from http://alaveteli.192.168.64.2.nip.io/ - NB: no SSL by default.

[gbp]

The above wkhtmltox package change isn't needed anymore as mySociety provides Arm version of wkhtmltox now.

[gbp]

With the move to BUSL I think we should get this merged.

[garethrees]

Agree! 🧹