vagrant-lamp change src directory

Question

I started using vagrant-lamp by Matt Andersen (https://github.com/mattandersen/vagrant-lamp) which maps the the UBUNTU www root directory to /vagrant/src which maps to a directory on the local machine. It works fantastic for what I needed it... It uses, VirtualBox on Windows host with Ubuntu as guest, and provides me with the local development environment I needed.

I am trying to improve it by setting a /vagrant/src1 where src1 is on my Dropbox directory...

I mapped a new share folder in VirtualBox settings, I created a new directory (vagrant/src1) and mounted it in Ubuntu. Then I changed the vagrant.vhost.conf to point the new directory, It workes great!

Unfortunately the share folder setting in virtualbox does not stay after a vagrant halt and vagrant up commands. Something in the vagrant up is overiding my virtuabbox setting after vagrant up command.

Probably something simple, but not sure why -- Any ideas? Many thanks!

Answer 1

Matt responded to this question on his github and it worked great!
Thank you Matt!

Assuming that your Dropbox folder is in the regular place and you're on Mac or Linux you need to add the following to the Vagrantfile inside of the Vagrant.configure block:

config.vm.synced_folder "~/Dropbox", "/vagrant/src"

This will mount your Dropbox directory on top of the src directory inside of the Virtual Machine. Apache is configured to look point there for files.