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How to install Laravel in Homestead from scratch?

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INSTALLATION

For the starters, we need to install some software.

Install Composer

Composer can be downloaded from this page and it's installation process is pretty straight forward.

Install Oracle VM VirtualBox

VirtualBox can be downloaded from this page, of course choose latest Windows version.

Install Git

Git can be downloaded from this page.

Installing Homestead

After we have installed all required software, we can start with Homestead installing process.

1. Let's create a folder called "myapp" directly on C partition. Enter that folder and right-click inside it. Choose an option "Git Bash Here".You will get a command like like here:
   
2. In command line, write a following command and press Enter

   vagrant box add laravel/homestead

3. After few moments you will need to choose the provider, so select VirtualBox by typing 3 and pressing Enter.
   
4. After a while, enter following command:

   git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git

   That will create a new folder named "homestead" inside of your "myapp" folder and it will download Homestead inside of it.

5. Now, if you're still in myapp folder in CMD, enter

   cd homestead

   in order to enter a "homestead" folder, and after that enter this code

   git checkout release

6. In order to create your Homestead.yaml file enter this line

   bash init.sh

   If everything is ok, you will get a message "Homestead initialized!" and Homestead.yaml file will be created inside of "homestead" folder.

7. Virtual server will use ssh keys so we need to create them by using this line

   ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "you@homestead"

   We can skip this step but then we need to comment out the code (authorize and keys lines) in Homestead.yaml.

8. It really depends of your requirements ho you would setup this file but lets say that a following example will cover you for the starters.

   ---
   ip: "192.168.10.10"
   memory: 4096
   cpus: 2
   hostname: myapp.local
   name: myapp.local
   provider: virtualbox
   
   authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
   
   keys:
   - ~/.ssh/id_rsa
   
   folders:
   - map: C:/myapp/app
   to: /home/vagrant/app
   type: "nfs"
   
   sites:
   - map: myapp.local
   to: /home/vagrant/app/myproject/public
   
   databases:
   - myappdb
   
   ports:
   - send: 80
   to: 80
   - send: 8080
   to: 80
   - send: 3000
   to: 3000
   - send: 8025
   to: 8025

   Folders and sites settings are changed so now we are telling vagrant where to look and how to map our project. Notice that map line under folders ends with /app. That folder doesn't exists yet but that's actually our future Laravel project(s) folder. So we are mapping that route to match /home/vagrant/app inside of virtual machine and under sites we are mapping a URL basically and a route where this URL will point to in virtual server. There we have also used new part of the path myproject and that would be our first Laravel project which we are going to create later. Database name can remain as it is but we renamed it to myappdb.

9. In your hosts file (under C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) add the following line

   192.168.10.10 myapp.local

   so your Laravel app can be accessible through http://myapp.local URL.

10. Start vagrant by entering this line

    vagrant up

Installing Laravel

1. Enter the following line to download Laravel installer using Composer

   composer global require laravel/installer

2. Create a folder named app in myapp folder and navigate to it in CMD.
3. Enter following line

   laravel new myproject --auth

   This will create a folder myproject insider of app folder and install Laravel inside of it. Parameter --auth is optional and it will create for you UI for user login, register, password reset etc.

And that's it, now you have your first Laravel app. How to connect to that database? Inside of the folder myproject you will find a newly created .env file. Open it and change following lines

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=myappdb
DB_USERNAME=homestead
DB_PASSWORD=secret

Now youre good to go. In case that you want to access this database with some external software (.i.e. MySQL Workbench) you would need to use port 33060. If you wan't to immediately try registration and login, first you need to run all migrations (which will create required tables in database).

Type

vagrant ssh

then navigate to app/myproject and type

php artisan migrate