How can I refresh homestead for a new site in my environment? - laravel

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

As of Laravel 5 and more importantly Homestead 2.0, just run:
homestead up
Then:
homestead provision

Answer 5

You have to use vagrant provision anyway from the same directory where Homestead.yaml is.

Answer 6

You can run:
homestead up --provision

Answer 7

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.