Lenvi is a framework-agnostic development environment powered by Ansible. It installs and configures Nginx, multiple PHP versions, your choice of database, per-project databases, a global database user, and a smart Composer wrapper that automatically uses the correct PHP version for each project.

Features

Framework Agnostic: By specifying a document_root for Nginx and a project_root for Composer, you can support Laravel, WordPress, legacy PHP apps, or even static HTML sites.
Robust Validation: Automatically checks that your configured directories and index files exist before attempting setup, preventing common Nginx errors.
Per-Project Databases: Each site defined in Lenvi.yaml can have its own isolated database, created automatically.
Seamless Composer Workflow: cd into your project directory and run composer install. Lenvi automatically uses the correct PHP version for that project.
Centralized Configuration: Manage your entire environment from a single, clean Lenvi.yaml file.

Prerequisites

Ansible & Git: Must be installed. sudo apt update && sudo apt install ansible git -y
Sudo Access: Your user must have sudo privileges.
Debian-based OS: Required for apt (includes Ubuntu, WSL distributions, etc.).

How to Run

1. Get the Code

git clone https://git.marmattheo.com/marito/Lenvi.git lenvi-ansible && cd lenvi-ansible

2. Configure Lenvi

Open Lenvi.yaml and define your sites. This is the key to Lenvi's flexibility:

project_root: The base directory of your project. This is where you would run git or composer commands.
document_root: The directory that Nginx will serve files from. For Laravel, this is the public sub-directory. For many other projects, it might be the same as the project_root. Example Lenvi.yaml:

db_engine: "mariadb"
db_credentials: { user: "lenvi", password: "password" }
sites:
  - domain: my-laravel-app.local
    project_root: /home/user/projects/my-laravel-app
    document_root: /home/user/projects/my-laravel-app/public
    php_version: "8.2"
    database: "laravel_db"
  - domain: my-static-site.local
    project_root: /home/user/projects/my-static-site
    document_root: /home/user/projects/my-static-site
    php_version: "8.2" # Required for Nginx config, can be any installed version

3. Execute the Playbook

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i inventory --ask-become-pass

🚀 Post-Installation

Database Access

For each project, use the global user credentials with the project-specific database name from Lenvi.yaml.

Update Your Hosts File

Map your domains to 127.0.0.1.

On Linux

sudo nano /etc/hosts

On Windows (for WSL Users)

Open Notepad as Administrator and edit C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. Example entries:

127.0.0.1   my-laravel-app.local
127.0.0.1   my-static-site.local

✅ You're all set! Your flexible, multi-project environment is ready.