Homestead is Laravel’s official Vagrant box. It comes preconfigured with a lot of tools you might need. It really makes things a lot easier and quicker.
To install Homestead we will pull it’s Vagrant file as well as it’s CLI helper utility from github. Git is already installed on OS X Yosemite so just run this command in terminal:
git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead
This will create a new directory. Inside will be few files but let’s start with configuration. Run this command inside the Homestead directory:
bash init.sh
This will create a configuration file but let’s leave it alone for now. Before we can start the VM we need to create a place for it to pull site files from. This is configured in the mentioned file but we can use the default location. Use this command to create the Code directory:
mkdir ~/Code
If you want to use a different path you will need to edit the following file:
~/.homestead/Homestead.yaml
One last piece we need is to tell our machine how to pull up Homestead website. To do that we need to edit a hosts file. Run this command:
open -a TextEdit /private/etc/hosts
This will open that file in a text editor. Add this line:
192.168.10.10 homestead.app
Of course you can use vi if you are comfortable.
At this point you can start the Homestead box. Read my article on Vagrant for more information.
At first I mentioned Homestead CLI helper. We really don’t need it for anything and since it requires Composer let’s just leave it alone.
I hope you enjoyed this lesson. Check out the Table of Contents post for more.
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