Laravel Homestead (Windows) - windows

Question

Today I have been trying to install the Laravel library together with Laravel Homestead.. But I can't seem to get it working.
The first thing, Laravel documentation tells you to do: composer global require "laravel/homestead=~2.0", but it didn't work.
So I searched the internet some and found: composer global require "laravel/homestead=~3.0", which actually worked.
But now when I try to run the homestead command in my command line, it gives me this: http://prntscr.com/9perhj, that's the only thing it's giving me.
I have added the directory to my path variable.
I hope someone can help me.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Homestead itself command will return this expected screen. You would need to pass the command you want to run.
At first, run homestead init so that it will create the Homestead.yaml configuration file

Answer 2

This is an old question but I thought I'd put up my answer since it took me multiple tries to get it right and I documented the process while I was doing it so I wouldn't have such a hard time in the future.
Note: You should NOT have NginX, PHP, MySQL, etc. installed on your machine. The Vagrant Homestead virtual box provides all of this functionality. I had some issues where I had NginX and MySQL on my machine and it was connecting to my local machine's MySQL when it should be connecting to the virtual box's MySQL.
Without further ado, this is how I set it up for my Windows 7 machine:
Prerequisites:
VirtualBox:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Vagrant:
https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
Git Bash: A terminal that feels like a Linux terminal. You can do everything you do on an Ubuntu server in Windows.
https://git-scm.com/downloads
Putty: Telnet client that I used for connecting to my VirtualBox Homestead server
http://www.putty.org/
create project folder
open terminal in project folder (something like E:\Projects\Vagrant)
type 'vagrant box add laravel/homestead'
type 'git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead'
This installs Homestead in the designated project folder.
type 'cd Homestead'
type 'bash init.sh' OR 'init.bat'
This creates a folder in:
C:\Users\USERNAME\.homestead
which has the file:
Homestead.yaml
If you open the Homestead.yaml file it should look something like this:
---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
provider: virtualbox
authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
- map: ~/Code
to: /home/vagrant/Code
sites:
- map: homestead.app
to: /home/vagrant/Code/Laravel/public
databases:
- homestead
The '~/' folder is the equivalent of:
C:\Users\USERNAME\
Change:
folders:
- map: ~/Code
to: /home/vagrant/Code
sites:
- map: homestead.app
to: /home/vagrant/Code/Laravel/public
To:
folders:
- map: E:/Projects/Vagrant/Homestead
to: /home/vagrant/Homestead
sites:
- map: WEBSITE.dev
to: /home/vagrant/Homestead/Laravel/public
goto C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
open the file 'hosts' in a text editor
add '192.168.10.10 WEBSITE.dev' (the IP address should match the IP address in the Homestead.yaml file)
open a terminal in E:/Projects/Vagrant/Homestead folder
type 'ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "USERNAME#gmail.com"'
This creates the folder C:\Users\USERNAME.ssh and sets up your SSH Key
type 'vagrant init laravel/homestead'
type 'vagrant up'
You should see Homestead running in VirtualBox
You can use 'vagrant destroy' to kill it when done
Use putty.exe to log in to Homestead
IP Address: 127.0.0.1
Port: 2222
login as: vagrant
password: vagrant
Everything is now ready