This setup is no longer in use, but I decided to keep it here for posterity.

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

2. You must have PHP and Composer installed.

3. Run composer install. This will install all of the needed dependencies, as well as Homestead in vendor/laravel/homestead and symlink it to vendor/bin/homestead, which we will be aliasing to use Homestead from the project directory.

4. Run ./homestead_init from the root of the project

5. Edit /etc/hosts and add your new domain. The IP address which you should add is by default 192.168.10.10 and the domain is homestead.app.

6. If you require a particular package installed on the VM, or if you simply need to do some extra provisioning, you can do it in ~/.homestead/after.sh

7. Run homestead up

   • If you get "A VirtualBox machine with the name [**name**] already exists..." then open up VirtualBox and simply delete the machine with the same name. Alternatively you can just change the VM's name in the Homestead.yaml file.
   • If bash/zsh gives you "homestead up command not found" just source .shell_aliases manually.

8. Your app should now be served at homestead.app by default. You can also ssh into your homestead box by running homestead ssh from the application root.

9. You would have to homestead ssh into the homestead VM, cd into your project's root folder and run the following commands, in order to have the most recent DB version:

   • php artisan db:rebuild
   • php artisan db:make-tests-dump

10. The only configuration file you need to care about is located at ~/.homestead/Homestead.yaml

11. If you need to, you can read up further on configuring Homestead here: https://laravel.com/docs/master/homestead