No input files specified - symfony app set up with homestead - php

Question

I tried to use homestead to iset up Symfony using instruction here. Everything seemed to run correctly in git bash, but after php bin/console server:start, I get "No input files specified" when I go to localhost:8000 or http://127.0.0.1:8000 or symfony-demo.test. I have searched around and tried different approaches for the past 6 hours, but still can't get it work. I'm quite new to virtual machine and vagrant, and complete newbie to Symfony so any help would be highly appreciated!
Here is my Homestead.yaml file:
folders:
- map: C:\php-apps
to: /home/vagrant/code
sites:
# - map: homestead.test
# to: /home/vagrant/code/homestead/public
- map: symfony-demo.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/symfony_demo/web
type: symfony
Here is the host file:
#192.168.10.10 homestead.test
192.168.10.10 symfony-demo.test
Here is latest commands I ran in git bash:
vagrant#homestead:~$ ls
code
vagrant#homestead:~$ cd code/
vagrant#homestead:~/code$ cd symfony_demo/
vagrant#homestead:~/code/symfony_demo$ ls
symfony symfony-demo
vagrant#homestead:~/code/symfony_demo$ cd symfony-demo/
vagrant#homestead:~/code/symfony_demo/symfony-demo$ ls
app bin composer.json composer.lock phpunit.xml.dist README.md src tests var vendor web
vagrant#homestead:~/code/symfony_demo/symfony-demo$ php bin/console server:start
[OK] Server listening on http://127.0.0.1:8000
vagrant#homestead:~/code/symfony_demo/symfony-demo$
I tested Laravel before and it worked fine, though http://127.0.0.1:8000 was also showing laravel after started the symfony server in symfony-demo, so I commented out Laravel site in host file and Homestead.yaml and ran vagrant --provision. Afterwards when I went back to symfony-demo directory and launched the server again, everything starts to show "No input files specified".

Answer 1

I have figured it out so I want to post my solution here just in case someone else ran into the same issues as me. So I'm on a windows 10, before my own config files, please do read careful through these 3 resources:
Using homestead to install Symfony on various version documentation by Symfony
Installing Symfony 3 with vagrant and homestead by Sanket Patel
Set up homestead on windows by JBorbón
Here is what I did:
Create a homestead folder on my C drive.
Install symfony installer on C drive and move it into the homestead
folder above.
Create my project inside of homestead folder above (my project is
called autotrader).
Download vagrant, virtual box and set up homestead according to
their documentation. I set up a directory called
homesteadserver where I cloned homestead in.
Configure my Homestead.yaml file as below:
folders:
# - map: ~/code
# to: /home/vagrant/code
- map: C:\homestead
to: /home/vagrant/homestead
sites:
# - map: homestead.test
# to: /home/vagrant/code/public
- map: autotrader.test
to: /home/vagrant/homestead/autotrader/web
type: symfony
Configure my host file as below:
192.168.10.10 autotrader.test
Go to my homestead server and vagrant up and provision.