Last year, after being a long time user of a WAMP stack, I switched over to Homestead on Vagrant. For a non-Laravel development project, I am required to use Apache Server. I know that it is possible to install Apache server on Homestead and then add Virtual Hosts for each site, but this seems a bit impractical. The sites in the Homestead.yaml file work with Nginx but don't seem to work with Apache.
My questions are:
Is there away of creating the Virtual Hosts automatically in Apache?
Is there another Vagrant box that would do this or that you can
recommend for use with Apache?
Am I just missing something?
I'm kind of a noob in these things. Any help is greatly appreciated!
As for now, to make a site entry in Homestead.yaml file works with Apache2, you need to:
1- Add the site to Homestead.yaml, with type: apache
as fellow
sites:
-
map: homestead.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/Laravel/public
-
map: homestead.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/Apache/public
type: apache
2- go to the vagrant box directory, and run
vagrant destroy
3- then run
vagrant up
4- shh to the vagrant machine
vagrant ssh
5- flip the server, by running:
flip
you'll get this message:
nginx stopped
apache started
To test
I've created the directory Apache/public
mkdir -p Apache/public
then inside it, I've created the file index.php
echo "<?php phpinfo();" > Apache/public/index.php
Which is accessible using the same IP address of the default homestead negix site
Add type: apache to your homestead.yaml sites configuration, then realod the vagrant machine using vagrant reload --provision
sites:
- map: homestead.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/{path/to/laravel}/public
type: "apache"
Learn more in laravel doc
I'm still researching and figuring it out myself. The documentation is practically nonexistent, but see https://laravel.com/docs/master/homestead#adding-additional-sites
In particular:
Site Types
Homestead supports several types of sites which allow you to easily
run projects that are not based on Laravel. For example, we may easily
add a Symfony application to Homestead using the symfony2 site type:
sites:
- map: symfony2.app
to: /home/vagrant/Code/Symfony/public
type: symfony2 The available site types are: apache, laravel (the default), proxy, silverstripe, statamic, and symfony2.
Also note: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/homestead-and-apache
Will revise as I learn more.
Related
I have a Homestead VM with multiple nginx sites and a couple of apache sites too, everything configured through the Homestead.yaml file (short example below):
sites:
- map: site1.local
to: /home/vagrant/site1
php: "7.1"
#type: "apache <= (commented on purpose, not an error)
- map: site2.local
to: /home/vagrant/site2
php: "7.1"
I've been working turning On and Off the type: "apache" setting so the VM starts running apache (instead of nginx) or not, depending on the site that I need to work on at the specific moment.
My Issue now is that, after upgrading Vagrant and Homestead, it always keeps starting apache by default, no matter if it is specified or not, ALWAYS!; so everytime I start the machine, I need to ssh-it and flip the server.
I even tried using the services config directive as follows, without luck:
services:
- enabled:
- "nginx"
- disabled:
- "apache2"
Any thoughts? Please help!
Versions I am using:
Vagrant 2.2.7
Homestead 10.8.0
I had a similar issue. It turned out that I needed to log in the VM through SSH, and run the following command:
sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
When you look at restart-webserver.sh in the Homestead scripts directory, you will see that it verifies whether nginx is enabled, otherwise it always tries to restart Apache.
Everytime i go to my project I get a 502 bad gateway. When I refresh, the page works.. If I click a link to another page I get 502 bad gateway again. After the refresh the page loads. What could be the problem here.
Homestead.yaml
---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
provider: virtualbox
authorize: c:/Users/MyNameHere/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- c:/Users/MyNameHere/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
- map: c:/Users/MyNameHere/Desktop/sites
to: /home/vagrant/code
sites:
- map: spa.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/spa/public
databases:
- homestead
Got the latest version for virtualbox and vagrant.
My spa folder contains the newest version laravel.
Login to Laravel Homestead Server with PuTTY and Private Key File.
then...
cd /etc/php/7.4/mods-available
sudo nano xdebug.ini
Comment out the first line
;zend_extension=xdebug.so
xdebug.remote_enable = 0
xdebug.remote_connect_back = 1
xdebug.remote_port = 9000
xdebug.max_nesting_level = 512
Then restart PHP-FPM
sudo service php7.4-fpm restart
Had the same issue with the latest version of homestead.
After digging in log files and then github issues for homestead, I found this this.
There's an issue with xdebug that they're waiting for a fix for. The solution is to disable xdebug or use php 7.2. I opted for the latter. In that case, make the following change in your homestead.yaml and then running vagrant reload --provision will fix this.
sites:
- map: spa.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/spa/public
php: "7.2"
I was having the same problem and I couldn't change the PHP version or disable xdebug, but I could and did change for the Apache server.
sites:
- map: spa.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/spa/public
type: "apache"
I had a similar issue, got the 502 error. Refreshing the browser or reloading the virtual machine had no effect.
I solved disabling the Xdebug. Found the solution here: https://christattum.com/disabling-xdebug-in-laravel-homestead/
On prompt:
cd /etc/php/7.4/mods-available
sudo vi xdebug.ini
Commented all the lines of the file with ;
Run the vagrant reload --provision command to the Homestead file in the virtual machine, and then after vagrant up, enter with vagrant ssh. Your problem will be solved :)
You can change your ip post adress and write 127.0.0.1 in your host file.
You can enter it by adding 8000 next to the project name in the search engine.
For example spa.test:8000 and then running vagrant reload --provision will fix this.
I lost 3 days trying to solve the same issue.
My mistake was to have defined in my host file something like:
127.0.0.1 spa.test
The solution is to add instead, the same IP you specified in Homestead.yaml.
192.168.10.10 spa.test
to /etc/host (In case of Mac)
to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (in case of Windows)
Even if you have multiple hosts defined in your global Homestead.yaml file.
For instance
folders:
- map: /Users/davidecasiraghi/Projects/my_laravel_project
to: /home/vagrant/code/my_laravel_project
- map: /Users/davidecasiraghi/Projects/spa
to: /home/vagrant/code/spa
sites:
- map: my_laravel_project.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/my_laravel_project/public
- map: spa.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/spa/public
Then in the host file:
192.168.10.10 spa.test
192.168.10.10 my_laravel_project.test
Then when you will do vagrant up you will be able to access to both of them.
For me this was related to Xdebug, which doesn't seem to yet be compatible with PHP 7.3.
To continue using 7.3, you can turn Xdebug off with
sudo phpdismod xdebug
restart php service
sudo service php7.3-fpm reload
For Chinese,
if you are using Clash for Windows,
then edit "Bypass Domain".
It's not relevant to this question,
but Google lead me here,
Do this inside your Homestead VM vagrant ssh
Check your php version
$ php -v
Edit your website config file
$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/<laravel.app>
line
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock;
change according to your php version
mine was php8.2-fpm.sock; then I change it to php8.1-fpm.sock; press ctrl+x to save, then
$ sudo service nginx restart
$ sudo service php<ver>-fpm restart
reload the page
I install a new Laravel app into my /sites folder called 'blog' using the laravel new blog terminal command.
The site builds fine, no errors on the terminal.
Then I used the subl /etc/hosts command to open up the hosts file in Sublime Text 3. Here is the contents of that file.
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 laraveltest.app
127.0.0.1 makoto.app
127.0.0.1 modelawiki.app
127.0.0.1 fresher.app
127.0.0.1 blog.app
Right now let's focus on blog.app.
I then use the subl Homestead.yaml command to open and edit the Homestead.yaml file and update the maps. Here's the contents of that file.
---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
provider: virtualbox
authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
- map: ~/www/sites
to: /home/vagrant/sites
sites:
- map: blog.app
to: /home/vagrant/sites/blog/public
- map: laraveltest.app
to: /home/vagrant/sites/laravelTest/public
- map: makoto.app
to: /home/vagrant/sites/Makoto
- map: modelawiki.app
to: /home/vagrant/sites/modelawiki
- map: fresher.app
to: /home/vagrant/sites/fresher/public
databases:
- homestead
I then run the homestead provision command which is an alias for vagrant provision to update everything and get the site up and running.
Now before running the vagrant provision command, every other site (laraveltest.app:8000, makoto.app:8000, etc.) worked just fine, and or displayed the Default Laravel Splash screen (laraveltest.app:8000).
When visiting any of the sites mapped in the homestead.yaml file, all I'm getting is the following page displayed...
http://imgur.com/a/6IIkD
Here's the HTML output.
<html><body><h1>It works!</h1></body></html>
I'm confused on what I did wrong. I'm a newer user going through the Laravel Tutorials on LaraCasts. I followed CodeCourses videos on YouTube to help me install the Vagrant Box onto my machine.
I've also tried to see what was out there on the net for this issue and all i could find is this article on laravel valet... but it seems as though this isn't the tutorial I need.
https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/valet-v112-update-just-keep-getting-the-it-works
Edit: I'm currently in the process of uninstalling the vagrant box running laravel/homestead. I did the vagrant destroy <id> command and the vargrant box remove. I then edited the /etc/hosts file and removed all the edited custom app names. I then also deleted my Homestead folder containing my homestead.yaml file. I'm hopefully starting with a fresh install here soon.
(Posted answer on behalf of the OP).
I reinstalled everything including the Vagrant box, and Homestead. Everything runs as normal. Don't know what happened. However the only way I can connect to my sites are to actually type the port in the URL. i.e. blog.app:8000. If i visit blog.app by itself, then the "It Works!" header comes back up and the laravel site goes away.
I'm thinking this might be an issue with nginx, and port forwarding? Since this is the case and the original question has been answered by myself, I'll be asking a new question about port forwarding and Laravel homestead.
Have you configured your sites-available ? try this line inside the virtual machine (after command vagrant ssh):
serve blog.app ~/sites/blog/public
It seems that you have already solved the problem, as you made an edit to your original question and linked to a new question. However, one thing I noticed that may have been causing your problem is the IP in your /etc/hosts file is does not match the IP in your Homestead.yaml file. When I use Laravel Homestead, I make sure that my /etc/hosts and Homestead.yaml files have identical IPs. I always get the Laravel splash page when I do this. Hopefully this is useful for future Vagrant boxes.
I'm having problem to understand how to run my website using vagrant and Laravel Homestead environment.
I added laravel/homestead box without any problems. Then I ran vagrant init laravel/homestead and it worked too.
I managed to create Homestead.yaml and here's what it contains:
---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
provider: virtualbox
authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
- map: ~/www
to: /home/vagrant/code
sites:
- map: project.dev
to: /home/vagrant/code/project
databases:
- homestead
variables:
- key: APP_ENV
value: local
vagrant up runs correctly, but I don't know how to access my website. I added 192.168.10.10 project.dev to my /etc/hosts.
I want to keep my project at ~/www/project. First thing that I didn't understand from the docs is, what is the folder at sites / map / to setting supposed to be? My local folder or a folder in the virtual environment?
The next thing I don't understand is why when I do vagrant ssh and then ls, I don't see any files, even though there's index.php at my ~/www/project. I thought they are going to be synchronized automatically.
When I go to project.dev in the browser, it timeouts. I tried project.dev:8000 as well and 192.168.10.10, but nothing works.
Please help me.
You are forgetting the folders parameter, also your indentation should be with spaces and not with tabs, thats the way yaml works, everything else seems to be fine but try to make it with something similar to this one
---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
provider: virtualbox
authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
- map: ~/www/project
to: /home/vagrant/code
sites:
- map: project.dev
to: /home/vagrant/code/project/public
databases:
- homestead
variables:
- key: APP_ENV
value: local
you're missing the folder share settings in you're homestead.yaml file.
Try adding
folders:
- map: ~/www/project
to: /home/vagrant/code
Look at the docs here
http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/homestead#configuring-homestead under Configuring Shared Folders
I think this is the common issue that someone new to Laravel Homestead is facing.
Laravel Homestead basically provides an image that gets a VM ready for Laravel development. The yaml config on "sites" is basically use to configure Nginx - it does not install a Laravel project on the path specified.
So for a new homestead VM, you just have to ssh into your Homestead VM, and type and run this:
composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"
Once done, on you /home/vagrant/code folder (in the VM, not your host), type and run this:
laravel new project
Where the "project" is the name given to your new project. Since your yaml is already configured to "project", the above command will work fine. Obviously, this is clearly not the only way to get Laravel as you can use composer create-project to install Laravel directly.
Once done, you should be able to visit http://project.dev on your host's browser, if your host file is configured with this added entry:
192.168.10.10<tab>project.dev
Alternatively, you can configure your host file to be
127.0.0.1<tab>project.dev
Which you can then view on your host's browser via http://project.dev:8000
Hope the above explains clear enough. Enjoy!
I'm running Laravel 4 on my development machine (Mac) with homestead and enjoying it thus far but having trouble when adding a new site. The problem is that I add lines like this for a new site in my ~/.homestead/Homestead.yaml file:
folders:
- map: ~/Sites
to: /home/vagrant/Sites
sites:
- map: listingnaples.dev
to: /home/vagrant/Sites/listingnaples.com/public
- map: videocraftersusa.dev
to: /home/vagrant/Sites/videocraftersusa.com/
Then, my /etc/hosts looks like this:
# MY SITES
192.168.10.10 listingnaples.dev
192.168.10.10 videocraftersusa.dev
192.168.10.10 laneyandchris.dev
If i go in and do a homestead destroy followed by homestead up I can access any of those new sites. That deletes my databases though and really sets me back. How do I "refresh" so to speak? If I add myawesomesite.dev to my /etc/hosts, how can I have homestead pick it up?
I tried homestead --provision but that isn't a recognized command.
For what it's worth, in my ~/.homestead/ directory, I do not have a VagrantFile. Not sure where that's at so I can't run a vagrant provision either.
You can also reload the box and the settings
vagrant reload --provision
This reload the box and see if there are changes, if that's the case it will make the changes while reloading
I just ssh using homestead ssh and then add this line
serve domain.app /home/vagrant/Code/path/to/public/directory
where you replace domain.app to your app name, the same you use on your yaml file and your path to your new public site directory, then just homestead up and you could see it active.
Try run vagrant global-status. You'll see the list of running boxes at this time, like this:
MacBook-Pro-lancedikson:~ lancedikson$ vagrant global-status
id name provider state directory
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9710b02 default virtualbox running /Users/lancedikson/.composer/vendor/laravel/homestead
The above shows information about all known Vagrant environments
on this machine. This data is cached and may not be completely
up-to-date. To interact with any of the machines, you can go to
that directory and run Vagrant, or you can use the ID directly
with Vagrant commands from any directory. For example:
"vagrant destroy 1a2b3c4d"
That's all. Now run vagrant provision 9710b02 and it will be provisioned.
As of Laravel 5 and more importantly Homestead 2.0, just run:
homestead up
Then:
homestead provision
You have to use vagrant provision anyway from the same directory where Homestead.yaml is.
You can run:
homestead up --provision
In my case I had a Homestead.yaml in ~/.homestead/ and in ~/Homestead/.
I am not sure if the default location changed or that I changed it manually (maybe because I did not like the hidden dir), but make sure you don't have multiple Homestead.yaml files. I now symlinked them so I can not confuse myself any further.
But normally, homestead provision or homestead up --provision (when it was turned off) should do.