For this setup, I followed the instructions from the Quick start guide of Instructure Canvas LMS https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/Quick-Start

Download and Install Vagrant

Vagrant 1.8.1 has a regression when it comes to installing vagrant-vbguest plugin. Download the vagrant deb file manually:

wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.0.1/vagrant_2.0.1_x86_64.deb

Install virtualbox plugin for vagrant.

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

Download and install VirtualBox

Clone this repo:

git clone [email protected]:andreas-kokkalis/canvas_lms_vagrant.git

Provision a new machine according the the configuration of Vagrantfile

vagrant up

After the machine is up, ssh

vagrant ssh

You can begin the installation process by executing the commands in the order specified below:

Get the canvas installation script:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FreedomBen/canvas-development-tools/master/CODES.sh
chmod +x CODES.sh

Install Nodejs:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get -y install nodejs

Install ruby 2.4:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ruby2.4 ruby2.4-dev libxmlsec1-dev

curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn=0.27.5-1

This image has some locale settings missing and causes the postgresql cluster to fail at initialization.

sudo su
echo -e "LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8\nLANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/environment

Logout and then login again

exit
vagrant ssh

The following will install postgresql-9.3 (initialization of the cluster is taken care of by the canvas installation script

sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

Install canvas. The script in theory is idempotent, so if something fails, you can run it again. (Note that it will re-initialize the database cluster everytime you run the installation script, so saved data will be lost.

./CODES.sh --full

After finishing the installation succesfully, run canvas, and start experimenting:

bundle exec rails db:initial_setup
bundle exec rails server -b 0.0.0.0

Visit http://192.168.39.39:3000/ on your browser. You will have to login with the Admin user you specified during the last steps of the CODES.sh script. You can start configuring canvas.