Homestead not working properly - macos

Question

I have installed vagrant on my machine. I have homestead installed both globally and in my project.
When I run vagrant up it does not work, I am unable to access the url in my browser, it comes up with a blank screen.
So I searched online and found a solution that allowed me to use homestead up by editing my ~/bash_profile and adding the following code:
function homestead() {
( cd ~/Workspace/homestead && vagrant $* )
}
Now when I navigate to my project director and run homestead up it works I am able to access the site via the url in my browser however I encountered another issue, it seemed to be loading from the global homestead.yaml file instead of my project's homestead.yaml file.
When I removed the site from my global homestead.yaml file and put it in my project's homestead.yaml file I kept getting no
input file specified
This is my project's homestead.yaml file:
---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
hostname: blog
name: blog
provider: virtualbox
authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
- map: "~/Workspace/blog"
to: "/home/vagrant/workspace/blog"
sites:
- map: blog.app
to: "/home/vagrant/workspace/blog/public"
databases:
- blog
# blackfire:
# - id: foo
# token: bar
# client-id: foo
# client-token: bar
# ports:
# - send: 50000
# to: 5000
# - send: 7777
# to: 777
# protocol: udp
And this is my global 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: ~/Workspace
to: /home/vagrant/workspace
sites:
- map: homestead.app
to: /home/vagrant/workspace/Laravel/public
databases:
- blog
# blackfire:
# - id: foo
# token: bar
# client-id: foo
# client-token: bar
# ports:
# - send: 50000
# to: 5000
# - send: 7777
# to: 777
# protocol: udp

Answer 1

Don't forget to flag --provision after you edited your .yaml file, so
homestead up --provision
OR
homestead reload --provision
Furthermore in your global Homestead.yaml you're syncing also the Homestead folder with the virtual box, that doesn't make much sense.
I would leave that apart and change it's path to ~/Homestead/ so your ~/Workspace/ will contain only the projects.
so change your bash profile accordingly, and change your Homestead.yaml file to reflect this (if you want to run multiple projects on the same box you won't need "projet" yaml file, but just the hometead global yaml file):
folders:
- map: ~/Workspace
to: /home/vagrant/workspace
sites:
- map: homestead.app
to: /home/vagrant/workspace/Laravel/public
- map: blog.app
to: /home/vagrant/workspace/blog/public
Hope this help
Cheers