Laravel homestead: "No input file specified" - laravel

Question

This is the output I get when entering my local site.
I'm using Windows and running Homestead with Vagrant on it. This is my homestead.yaml file:
---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
provider: virtualbox
authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
- map: D:/web/laravel
to: /home/vagrant/code
sites:
- map: laravel.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/public
databases:
- laravel
# blackfire:
# - id: foo
# token: bar
# client-id: foo
# client-token: bar
# ports:
# - send: 50000
# to: 5000
# - send: 7777
# to: 777
# protocol: udp
As you see, I opted for a global homestead installation, in my user folder, mapping Laravel to a path in a secondary drive.
None of these solutions I found worked for me:
vagrant up --provision
vagrant provision
Any help appreciated!

Answer 1

My global Homestead installation did not work, but my per project installations are OK.
Per project set up is preferred; we are able to tweak each project independently if and when we need to.
I lost two weeks due to 'no iput file specified' (at global installation). Yet the per project process is easy.
The following video more than helped me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs2Hzx4qBm8
Further let me use terms "host" (the machine) and "guest" (Homestead virtual machine, VM).
This sure works as described with versions:
Ubuntu 18.04, Virtualbox 5.2.18, Vagrant 2.1.5, Composer 1.7.2 - host.
Laravel Homestead 7.17.0, Laravel Installer 2.0.1 (Laravel 5.7) - guest.
Have Vagrant, Virtual Box (you can install the two per https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/homestead), as well as Composer installed on the host,
cd where you wish to keep Laravel sites, then mkdir LaravelSites, cd LaravelSites and then
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel petrTest (it takes time), to create the project (and add plenty packages), and then cd petrTest and ls to review it; I guess in this step I remember adding mbstring and perhaps one or two more packages per requests on terminal by hand (sudo apt install thePackage) for my first homestead project into my host,
composer require laravel/homestead --dev, to add homestead and yaml packages to the project,
vendor/bin/homestead, to run Homestead, so to install it into your project run vendor/bin/homestead make, and view your project (note you have just added Vagrantfile and mainly Homestead.yaml),
nano Homestead.yaml, review, and exit keeping it intact for your first project,
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "madeUp#email.com", Enter, file (keep_suggested_file): Enter, Overwrite the current file?: y, passphrase: Enter, passphrase again: Enter,
vagrant up (it takes time and computing resources), then vagrant ssh to switch to your guest (VM), cd code, then ls; and in /home/vagrant/code of your guest you can see those same files that are in /home/petr/LaravelSites/petrTest of your host (the two directories are synced),
logout to leave the guest for the host, sudo nano /etc/hosts, then append 192.168.10.10 homestead.test to the bottom and make sure to Write Out the changes. Then in the browser: homestead.test, Enter. You should see the Laravel web.
Alternatively you can follow the nice and easy video, too.