Laravel Homestead - php

Question

I'm trying to get Laravel Homestead up and running. I believe I did everything as manual says. When I run vagrant up -command I get following error on OS X 10.9:
My Homestead.yaml file is following:
---
authorize: /Users/foo/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- /Users/foo/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
folders:
- map: /Users/foo/projects
to: /home/vagrant
sites:
- map: site.dev
to: /home/vagrant/site/public
And this is what I get while executing vagrant up:
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Box 'laravel/homestead' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
default: Box Provider: virtualbox
default: Box Version: >= 0
==> default: Loading metadata for box 'laravel/homestead'
default: URL: https://vagrantcloud.com/laravel/homestead
==> default: Adding box 'laravel/homestead' (v0.1.6) for provider: virtualbox
default: Downloading: https://vagrantcloud.com/laravel/homestead/version/7/provider/virtualbox.box
==> default: Successfully added box 'laravel/homestead' (v0.1.6) for 'virtualbox'!
==> default: Importing base box 'laravel/homestead'...
==> default: Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
==> default: Checking if box 'laravel/homestead' is up to date...
==> default: Setting the name of the VM: Homestead_default_1400312360757_29263
==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
default: Adapter 1: nat
default: Adapter 2: hostonly
==> default: Forwarding ports...
default: 80 => 8000 (adapter 1)
default: 3306 => 33060 (adapter 1)
default: 5432 => 54320 (adapter 1)
default: 22 => 2222 (adapter 1)
==> default: Running 'pre-boot' VM customizations...
==> default: Booting VM...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
default: SSH username: vagrant
default: SSH auth method: private key
default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying...
==> default: Machine booted and ready!
==> default: Checking for guest additions in VM...
==> default: Setting hostname...
==> default: Configuring and enabling network interfaces...
==> default: Mounting shared folders...
default: /vagrant => /Users/foo/Homestead
default: /home/vagrant => /Users/foo/Projects
==> default: Running provisioner: shell...
default: Running: inline script
==> default: tee:
==> default: /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys
==> default: : No such file or directory
==> default: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDkJjDXl7bdRlSQ453fsdOE7JZxk5x7b5XxeiQxS2Xitj1DiHTiVbNns71AflaNy+K2ev4SeazibpRrZnZ99Pnvd8XuJwScUZZzGaU/AsbQGDUNuQU4Wa047XhG28uHlfZNM/X3kMmsC73QtyByUDFadTAz2SjhwCBkatmpu8aSwOAtkNDTg+0QLql6yfIHaV5tn8DLBRhWWovpBcrU8aopG+7jgVpHghaIDq/1SmgclOt9paLZV333s9b8f/qCm4zc6sRFCvdKrIYgSutYnPTRkLRXm8ooX8/R6kvpxD6D6ss5e0+rDWgdxCthC2/pqWaZ/B76Pa7FXZlt9lDx7zAR foo#bar.com
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!
chmod +x /tmp/vagrant-shell && /tmp/vagrant-shell "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDkJjDXl7bdRlSQ453fsdOE7JZxk5x7b5XxeiQxS2Xitj1DiHTiVbNns71AflaNy+K2ev4SeazibpRrZnZ99Pnvd8XuJwScUZZzGaU/AsbQGDUNuQU4Wa047XhG28uHlfZNM/X3kMmsC73QtyByUDFadTAz2SjhwCBkatmpu8aSwOAtkNDTg+0QLql6yfIHaV5tn8DLBRhWWovpBcrU8aopG+7jgVpHghaIDq/1SmgclOt9paLZV333s9b8f/qCm4zc6sRFCvdKrIYgSutYnPTRkLRXm8ooX8/R6kvpxD6D6ss5e0+rDWgdxCthC2/pqWaZ/B76Pa7F5ZlX9lDx7zAR foo#bar.com
"
Stdout from the command:
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDkJjDXl7bdRlSQ453fsdOE7JZxk5x7b5XxeiQxS2Xitj1DiHTiVbNns71AflaNy+K2ev4SeazibpRrZnZ99Pnvd8XuJwScUZZzGaU/AsbQGDUNuQU4Wa047XhG28uHlfZNM/X3kMmsC73QtyByUDFadTAz2SjhwCBkatmpu8aSwOAtkNDTg+0QLql6yfIHaV5tn8DLBRhWWovpBcrU8aopG+7jgVpHghaIDq/1SmgclOt9paLZV333s9b8f/qCm4zc6sRFCvdKrIYgSutYnXTRkLRXm8oor8/R6kvpxD6D6sX5e0+rDWgdxCthC2/pqWaZ/B76Pa7F5Zlt9lDxXzAR foo#bar.com
Stderr from the command:
tee: /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys: No such file or directory

Answer 1

Map your projects directory to something else than /home/vagrant:
folders:
- map: /Users/foo/projects
to: /home/vagrant/projects
This should fix your problem and you probably don't want your vagrant's config files (.ssh, .bashrc, etc) synced back to your local projects directory anyway.
Also your keys property should be set to private key, not public.

Answer 2

If you look at original Homestead.yaml again, you'll see that:
authorize needs your public key (id_rsa.pub)
keys needs your privte key (id_rsa)

Answer 3

keys should be:
keys: - /Users/foo/.ssh/id_rsa
not
keys: - /Users/foo/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Answer 4

Homestead is just an implementation of vagrant.
Try:
homestead up
If this still doesn't work, try
homestead destroy && homestead up

Answer 5

A little suggestion here based on my own learning experience. Homestead provides a nice and neat way for beginners to work on Laravel Framework in no time. However, I think the vagrant settings and weird environment is not straight forward to me.
I believe everyone has to work with the real Server and Laravel environment eventually. Therefore, I decided to give up homestead and simply install Ubuntu on VirtualBox. Then, I followed official instructions here and installed my Laravel pretty easily.
Just for your information. Just go straight to the real Laravel system instead of Homestead.