You have 3 options:

• Skip provisioning
• Comment out the site entry
• Remove the site completely

Skip Provisioning

By setting skip_provisioning to true in config/config.yml, VVV will pretend the site does not exist. It will not attempt to provision the site, set up its hosts, etc.

This is very useful if you want to disable a site to speed up provisioning, or because you aren’t working on it, while preserving the ability to come back to it at a later date.

For example:

  wordpress-default:
    repo: https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/custom-site-template.git
    skip_provisioning: true
    hosts:
      - local.wordpress.test

Remember that you need to reprovision VVV when changing this. The site will also be listed on the dashboard at vvv.test but will be listed as skipped.

Changing the value back to false and reprovisioning will reactivate the site

Commenting Out The Site

You can comment out the site in the config file, but this is no different to using skip_provisioning. Additionally, the site will no longer be listed on the dashboard at vvv.test.

E.g.

#  wordpress-default:
#    repo: https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/custom-site-template.git
#    skip_provisioning: false
#    hosts:
#      - local.wordpress.test

Removing A Site Completely

There are multiple steps to doing this:

• Remove the site from config/config.yml and save
• Reprovision
• Delete its folder
• Delete its database

Reprovisioning will remove host entries and Nginx config files

Why not Automatically Remove Sites?

We could auto-remove sites when they’re removed from config/config.yml, but this leads to several problems:

• Any typos or mistakes in config/config.yml would lead to bulk site removal, and accidental destruction of data
• DB’s are created by provisioner scripts, so VVV core has no insight to know which databases it can remove. This also becomes a problem for shared databases
• Commenting out a site would delete all of its files and content

For these reasons, site removal is a manual process, as this ensures it’s intentional, and prevents accidental deletion.

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