Homestead: command not found- Windows 10 - Tried everything - php

Question

Receiving bash Homestead command not found
//After running composer global require "laravel/homestead=~2.0"
Changed current directory to C:/Users/Eric/AppData/Roaming/Composer
./composer.json has been updated
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Nothing to install or update
Generating autoload files
//Inside my vi ~/.zshrc
export PATH=/Users/eric/AppData/Roaming/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH
export PATH="$laravel:$PATH"
I enabled Virtualization in BIOS
// Inside etc/hosts
Hosts:
127.0.0.1 homestead.app
192.168.10.10 homestead.app
//Inside environmental variables
C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\composer\vendor\bin
I can't find the homestead.yaml folder and I can't run any homestead commands. Any help with this would be appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

Assuming that you already have VirtualBox, Vagrant, Git Bash (Git for Windows) installed and working you have two options to install Homestead
Using Git Bash:
Open git bash, navigate to home directory (typically it's C:\Users\{username}) and run
git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead.
This will download Homestead in C:\Users\{username}\Homestead directory.
Then go to the Homestead installation directory
cd ~/Homestead and run bash init.sh.
This last command will create the Homestead configuration file (homestead.yaml).
Using composer
You need to have PHP and Composer already installed.
Open git bash and run composer global require "laravel/homestead=~2.0" command.
To take advantage of the Homestead CLI, make sure to add the Composer /bin directory to your PATH e.g. command prompt with admin privileges:
set PATH=%PATH%;%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin
Then to create the Homestead configuration file (homestead.yaml) you have to run homestead init.
If none of the above don't work you can use Laragon http://laragon.org/.