I know this might sound really silly, but I'm kinda stuck and need help. I'm trying to use Laravel 5.3 and use Homestead as my IDE. I have previously worked on PHP using NetBeans and XAMPP, but the installation has always been a pain. I have no formal training and have learnt and used basic PHP on my own for my webpages.
I'm running a Windows 8-32Bit OS & here's what I've done so far:
I have downloaded Laravel using Composer.
I have installed Virtual Box & Vagrant.
I have installed Git Bash and ran vagrant box add laravel/homestead (Homestead.yaml was not found in my Homestead folder after running bash init.sh command. I downloaded it from Github and added there).
Set SSH Key.
Ran vagrant up in Homestead folder (the installation was complete).
Issues:
If I just type http://localhost:8000 in my browser, nothing happens. I have to run php artisan serve in the command prompt inside laravel directory and keep the prompt window open for the default Laravel 5 page to open.
If I type http://127.0.0.1:8000 in my browser, nothing happens at all.
So how do I use Homestead then for my development everyday ?
you can try
localhost/project-name/public
if you dont want to run php artisan serve
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I got a php project which is already done and for starters I have to put it up on a server (planning to use Heroku). I am new to PHP virtual boxes, Laravel, etc. The person who made the project recommended to use Laravel so I started to get things going that way. I am running on Windows 10 and using cmder as my terminal.
I downloaded VirtualBox & Vagrant.
Then using commander I added the Laravel/Homestead box
by doing:
vagrant box add laravel/homestead
in the folder c:\Users\Jacky\vagrant\ubuntu (At least I think that is where I added it)
Afterwards I believe I did
vagrant init
or vagrant init laravel/homestead
whatever I did afterwards I was able to run
vagrant ssh
and get into the system. There I was able to check and I had php and composer installed.
I then followed laravels instructions and created a homestead folder at c:\Jack\Homestead
ran git checkout for v7.19.2
ran init.bat
and configured the Homestead.yaml file
I made the following folder map
- map: C:\Jack\myapp\public
to: /home/vagrant/myapp
and the following site map
- map: myapp.test
to: /home/vagrant/myapp/public
I am a bit confused with the directory structure of this whole thing and not sure if I was supposed to put the myapp directory inside c:\Jack\Homestead\myapp or if just doing it like i did in c:\Jack\myapp is fine.
Anyways that still worked and I could see it in my web browser. So far all was good.
Then the project instructions told me to do the following
run composer install
There was an env.example file I had to change to .env and change some setting
run php artisan key:generate
run php artisan migrate --seed
run php artisan passport:install
run php artisan storage:link
At this point I got an error that the Symlink could not be created, so I googled and found in Stack Overflow to restart as admin. I ran cmder as admin and have been having a heart attack for the last 30 minutes since it told me I had to vagrant up and when I did so it couldnt find my box and even doing vagrant box list
I would get no results and it wanted to redownload which takes over 3 hours.
I just restarted without admin and I do find that my Laravel/Homestead box is listed so I assume it was installed for my user and not admin so I guess I cant run cmder as admin.
So now I am trying to connect again, I am not sure in which folder I should be running the vagrant commands but I only seem to have a VagrantFile in my C:\Jack\Homestead folder so if I run a vagrant command anywhere else it gives me an error that a vagrant environment is required, etc.
So I tried the following inside my homestead folder:
vagrant ssh - I get:
VM must be running to open SSH connection. Run `vagrant up to start the virtual machine.
(In my VirtualBox Manager i see my homestead-7 VM running though)
vagrant up - I get:
Bringing machine 'homestead-7' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> homestead-7: Importing base box 'laravel/homestead'...
==> homestead-7: Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
==> homestead-7: Checking if box 'laravel/homestead' is up to date...
A VirtualBox machine with the name 'homestead-7' already exists.
Please use another name or delete the machine with the existing
name, and try again.
vagrant ssh 'homestead-7' I also get
VM must be running to open SSH connection. Run vagrant up
to start the virtual machine.
And the problem is once I do connect I assume I will still have the same problem running:
php artisan storage:link
So my questions are as follows:
Where should I have my projects myapp folder, should it be where it is at C:\Jack\myapp or am I supposed to put it in C:\Jack\Homestead\myapp
Is the VagrantFile supposed to be only in my Homestead folder and is that where I should be running all my Vagrant commands from? Like vagrant ssh and vagrant up
How do I connect again now that I am getting those errors running vagrant ssh and vagrant up
Once I connect I assume I will get the same error running php artisan storage:link since to run as administrator seems to not work what do I do?
I Assume that I should run git init and heroku create inside the myapp folder is this correct?
1) I always keep my apps folders outside of the Homestead folder. Your Homestead folder contains a git project, so if you put your apps inside you should include the folder in the .gitignore file. I think it's easier if you just put your apps elsewhere.
2) Vagrantfile is suposed to only be inside of your Homestead folder ( c:\Jack\Homestead). You should run all your vagrant commands inside the Homestead folder.
3) I used to get this error when I tried to run 'vagrant up' to a project that used the same box name 'homestead-7'. If you have version control, check if the file c:\Jack\Homestead\.vagrant\machines\homestead-7\virtualbox\id has been changed. If so, try restoring the old value and running 'vagrant up' again.
4) You are running in a windows environment, right? Windows can be a little temperamental with symlinks inside vagrant. You'll get the same problem if you try to npm install something. What I do to solve this is to run npm (and php artisan storage:link) outside of the virtual machine, in the host pc, inside the root of the app folder. Just a reminder: to do that you will need php installed in your host machine.
5) All commands related to the app (and not the virtual machine) should be run inside the virtual machine, in the folder app (ex: /home/vagrant/code/myapp) or inside the app folder of your host machine. Those two folders are in sync, thanks to vagrant.
I am beginning on Laravel and I have a quick question.
I am going to undertake a small test. I will be developing on Laravel under a Mac with Homestead and a Vagrant box.
My test project is going to be ran on an Ubuntu 16.04 with Php 7.
How can it be ran without Homestead or Vagrant? Is this possible?
You can just use laravel valet
https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/valet
Or php artisan serve
First, download and install lnmp.
Then edit your nginx.conf file, copy the configuration from homestead to the new server.
Finally, reload the nginx and php-fpm service.
I have a fresh installed laravel app and when i run php artisan serve it shows me the server information but when i go to that server it gives a cant be reach error. I am not running Vagrant just MAMP but it used to work before. I did tried to install Vagrant in the past and it didn't work that is why i came back to MAMP only. I read something about generating a key with php artisan key:generate which didn't work. Any help is appreciated.
This is the command I am using and the result
$ php artisan serve
Laravel development server started: <http://127.0.0.1:8000>
try to uninstall the antivirus if you have one ,in my case i uninstall avast ,reboot OS and it works for me .
I tried setting up a virtual machine using Homestead box. I followed documentation on Laravel site for setting up Homestead.
When I ran the command vagrant up, it seemed to work in setting a VM. Then it asked to run vagrant provision, which I did.
I can't get pass red text 'You are already using composer version 1.1.3 (stable channel)'. I don't know what to do next.
Update: here is Homestead.yaml file:
Needed to edit the file at
~/.homestead/Homestead.yaml
instead of
~/Homestead/Homestead.yaml
after that reload it as usual
vagrant reload --provision
Add
~/.composer/vendor/bin
to Your PATH on host machine (not inside vm).
After restart terminal You can use homestead command.
I am trying to install Laravel for first time. I installed it on my desktop with the following composer command
composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-app
The command completed successfully without any error but with some messages like
symfony/var-dumper suggests installing ext-symfony_debug ()
symfony/translation suggests installing symfony/config ()
I now did chmod -R 777 larvel-app to make whole folder writable by everyone. I now started php server with following command
cd laravel-app
php artisan serve
and it gave following message
Laravel development server started on http://localhost:8000
When viewed from web browser in address http://localhost:8000, there is nothing, only blank page. When I browse this address, the server seems to quit.
I have following environment:
OSX Mavericks;
MAMP with php 5.4.10 and apache2;
following extensions in php.ini file
extension=imap.so
extension=yaz.so
extension=mcrypt.so
extension=gettext.so
extension=pgsql.so
extension=pdo_pgsql.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so
;;;;;Following are added by me ;;;;no error when starting server
extension=openssl.so
extension=mbstring.so
When I run which php from command line, I get following.
/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin/php
When I tried to run this in mamp ie localhost:8888, it gave 500 internal server error.
Please suggest me, where I might have made mistake.
As a OSX user i strongly recommend you to use Laravel Homestead to develop your applications.
http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/homestead
You only need to install:
Virtualbox
Vagrant
I have my projects in ~/code folder, so everytime i create a new project, i just:
Add project test domain to my local host file (my-project.app pointing to localhost 127.0.0.1)
ssh into the homestead virtualmachine (homestead ssh)
run built in serve command (serve my-project.app /path/to/project/public)
Voilà
The most common reason for this is that the web server process does not have write access to the storage folder and its subfolders.
Set the permissions on the storage folder so that the web server can create files.
You don't have to use php serve, mamp does that for you. Make sure you point your directory to public folder. You can also use custom domain for each of your projects.
Also for Mac there is laravel valet. Easy to get started with many php projects.
I think you should move your Laravel Application to
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/
and then you can access it on
http://localhost:8888/laravel-app