Laravel strives to make the entire PHP development experience delightful, including your local development environment. Vagrant provides a simple, elegant way to manage and provision Virtual Machines.
Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. No more worrying about messing up your operating system! Vagrant boxes are completely disposable. If something goes wrong, you can destroy and re-create the box in minutes!
Homestead runs on any Windows, Mac, or Linux system, and includes the Nginx web server, PHP 7.3, PHP 7.2, PHP 7.1, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, Node, and all of the other goodies you need to develop amazing Laravel applications.
Link to documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/homestead
> vagrant box add laravel/homestead
> vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
> mkdir c:/Sites/p1
> composer global require “laravel/homestead=~2.0″
To take advantage of the Homestead CLI, make sure to add the Composer /bin directory to your PATH
> homestead init
%APPDATA%\Composer\vendor\laravel\homestead\scripts\homestead.rbConfigure A Private Network IP
ADD THE NEXT LINE TO CONFIGURE HOSTSUPDATER PLUGIN
config.hostsupdater.aliases = settings["aliases"]Go to etc/hosts and edit hosts file.
> vi etc/hosts
192.168.10.10 homestead
192.168.10.10 laravel.app
Edit homestead.yaml file
%HOMEPATH%\.homestead\Homestead.yaml
aliases: ["laravel.app"]
folders:
– map: c:/Sites/p1
to: /home/vagrant/Code
sites:
– map: laravel.app
to: /home/vagrant/Code/Laravel/publicNext execute the command.
> homestead up
