Setting Up a Laravel Environment with Laravel Homestead

#laravel #vagrant #virtualbox #composer

This article was originally published on bmf-tech.com.

Overview

I had the opportunity to work with Homestead, so here's a brief summary.

Preparation

Make sure to have the following tools ready:

composer
vagrant
virtualbox
ssh key
- Please create a key

Steps

Install Laravel

Let's install Laravel and run composer install.

composer create-project "laravel/laravel=5.5.*" projectname

cd app
composer install

Prepare Homestead

Prepare the Vagrant box.

vagrant box add laravel/homestead

Clone the repository for using Homestead and run the initialization script.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead
bash init.sh

Adjust the virtual environment settings in the YAML file.

vi Homestead.yaml

ip: "192.167.10.99" // edit
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
provider: virtualbox

authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

keys:
    - ~/.ssh/id_rsa

folders:
    - map: ~/localdev/project/laravel // edit
      to: /home/vagrant/code

sites:
    - map: laravel // edit
      to: /home/vagrant/code/public

databases:
    - homestead

# blackfire:
#     - id: foo
#       token: bar
#       client-id: foo
#       client-token: bar

# ports:
#     - send: 50000
#       to: 5000
#     - send: 7777
#       to: 777
#       protocol: udp

Next, edit the host file.

vi /etc/hosts

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1     localhost
192.167.10.99  laravel // edit
192.167.10.99  homestead  # VAGRANT: e78b975204ccde53ef11f1ffe284d4f4 (homestead-7) / b212bb82-8dc8-405b-8507-fa284ddb9aa8