Laravel Homestead setup not quite right? - laravel-4

I installed Laravel Homestead on my Mac, where my Laravel site lives locally at Users/me/Homestead/Site/Laravel. I've been using this to play around and do some real basic introductory testing.
Here is my Homestead.yaml:
---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
authorize: /Users/me/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- /Users/me/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
- map: /Users/me/Homestead/Site
to: /home/vagrant/Site
sites:
- map: homestead.dev
to: /home/vagrant/Site/Laravel/public
variables:
- key: APP_ENV
value: local
First of all, homestead.dev doesn't work. I can access the site at localhost:8000. But I'd like to get the vanity URL working locally... otherwise what's the point of having it in there...
Secondly, I'd like to change the Site folder's name to www, just for kicks. Can I do that and then just change its paths in my Homestead.yaml and everything will just fall into place? Can I do this while vagrant is up or should I make Homestead.yaml edits with it halted or suspended..?
Last but not least I want to add a second site, so within www (or Site currently), another folder, containing another Laravel project/site. In that case do I just add a second mapping under sites in Homestead.yaml? Again, does this edit have to be done with the VM halted?
How do I go about doing all this?
Thanks in advance.

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Homestead cant access second site remotely

I have one site setup fine, but the second can't be accessed remotely:
My YAML:
---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
provider: virtualbox
authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
- map: ~/Projects
to: /home/vagrant/Projects
sites:
- map: app.app
to: /home/vagrant/sites/app1/public
- map: app2.app
to: /home/vagrant/sites/app2/public
port: 8100
ports:
- host: 81
- guest: 8100
I can access the first site using my IP easily - http://192.168.0.5/ but the second one cannot share the same port, so I've added 81 -> 8100.
When I try to reprovision my homestead vagrant box it says:
There are errors in the configuration of this machine. Please fix
the following errors and try again:
vm:
* Forwarded port definitions require a "host" and "guest" value
* Ports to forward must be 1 to 65535
* Ports to forward must be 1 to 65535
Any ideas?
The service xip.io can make short work of this. Here's how:
As an example, I have the following Homesite app setup, 'rentmanager.test'. This is the first application I provisioned on Homestead, so it's the default route. To access this from my local network, all I have to do is go to:
http://rentmanager.test.192.168.5.124.xip.io:8000
Where 'rentmanager.test.' is the name of my Laravel application on Homestead, '192.166.5.124.' is my IP address on the local network, 'xip.io:8000' is the redirect service domain and the needed port to access the app (8000) outside of the default routing that Homestead sets up.
Now, this works fine out of the box with the first site you provision, but what happens if we have more than one site? That requires a little more legwork. Let's assume we've got a second app called 'sitescanner.test' that we want to access. If I try to access the same URL above with the new app URL, you'll see I'm still served the first application! Let's resolve that as well.
First, you're going to need to add an additional rule to your hosts file. So, assuming our new app is called 'sitescanner.test':
# Vagrant Sites External Access
192.168.10.10 sitescanner.test.192.168.5.124.xip.io
Once that's in place then we have to update the provisioning scripts in Homestead to create the correct virtual host entries so Homestead knows how to route the request. To do that, we'll edit your Homestead.yaml. Under the 'sites:' directive:
- map: sitescanner.test
to: /home/vagrant/Code/sitescanner/public
- map: sitescanner.test.192.168.5.124.xip.io
to: /home/vagrant/Code/sitescanner/public
Once this is complete, simply 'vagrant halt' (if it's already running), then 'vagrant up --provision' and you should be able to access your site from
http://sitescanner.test.192.168.5.124.xip.io:8000
Anywhere on your network! Hope this helps.
While I'm thinking about it, there is a final consideration for this configuration:
You may want to set a static IP address on your host machine if possible. If you're being assigned a dynamic IP address via DHCP it's possible (and likely) for this configuration to eventually break if you're ever assigned a new IP.
According to the documentation found at https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/homestead
you don't need to specify ports when adding multiple sites
sites:
- map: homestead.app
to: /home/vagrant/Code/Laravel/public
- map: another.app
to: /home/vagrant/Code/another/public
then add the following to your hosts file
192.168.10.10 homestead.app
192.168.10.10 another.app
make sure to run vagrant reload --provision
I do not know which version of Laravel or Homestead you are using, but this is possible. With the Homestead versions documented for Laravel 5.6 or 5.7, you were 95% of the way to having this complete.
Instead of using port: 8100 in your sites configuration, you should have used port: 81.
Instead of guest and host, use send and to.
I used the exact same setup as you except for those two differences, and it works for me.
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
provider: virtualbox
authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
- map: ~/Projects
to: /home/vagrant/Projects
sites:
- map: app.app
to: /home/vagrant/sites/app1/public
- map: app2.app
to: /home/vagrant/sites/app2/public
port: 81
ports:
- send: 8100
to: 81
You would then be able to access your app via http://app2.app:8100 if your hosts file has an entry for app2.app or via http://192.168.0.5:8100 if you aren't using the hosts file.

Vagrant Laravel new project set up

I am now ready to start a new project with Laravel using Vagrant. My initial project worked fine but I can't seem to get the new project to show in the browser with its unique name loginauth.app.
My very first app was called PaulsApp and if I typed paulsapp.app in the browser the laravel started page showed fine.
I followed the instructions to create a new project using composer create project in my VM in the same directory as my first app. I can see this in both the local and on the VM.
Next I updated the homestead.yaml file to include the new sitemap and run vagrant provision to let the VM know of the updates.
I believe I must be overlooking something as my .yaml file has the map as homestead.app but that does not work only paulsapp.app which is in my etc/hosts file.
Please could somebody explain how the .yaml file and the hosts file are interacting. If I completely remove the mapping to PaulsApp in the yaml file, paulsapp.app in the browser still shows up the correct page.. as such I am a tad confused. I thought one simply added a mapping to the yaml and then could access that mapping through the browser. I want to type loginauth.app in the browser and have it point to the index file in the public directory of /home/vagrant/code/loginauth/ thanks.
homestead.yaml
---
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/PaulsApp/public
- map: loginauth.app
to: /home/vagrant/code/loginauth/public
databases:
- homestead
variables:
- key: APP_ENV
value: local
etc/hosts
##
# 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
192.168.10.10 Paulsapp.app
#127.0.0.1 PaulsApp.dev
OK so thanks to some help from the guys over at #laravel irc channel..
I needed to add the correct line to the hosts file. I tried 192.168.10.10 loginauth.app but got no joy so I used 127.0.0.1 loginauth.app.
Then the key was to vagrant halt the VM, Vagrant UP it again then vagrant provision it so the VM could see the changes.
Now loginauth.app:8000/ brings up the page I was hoping for...

My Laravel Homestead doesn't work

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!

Xampp files in Vagrant: No input file specified.

I am new on vagrant. I am using Laravel Homestead Improved by following this
link. I want to map my existing code on vagrant which is inside my xampp installation. Here is my Homestead.yaml file contents.
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
sites:
- map: myapp.com
to: /home/vagrant/Code
folders:
- map: /opt/lampp/htdocs/codebase
to: /home/vagrant/Code
variables:
- key: APP_ENV
value: local
Although when I run the following command
cd Code/
it shows my code but on browser when I run http://myapp.com:8000/ it shows "No input file specified."
By default a webserver usually looks for index.html then index.php, neither of these files are in your /home/vagrant/Code folder which is why you're getting the "No input file specified" error.
On your sites section, you should map the domain to your public folder of Laravel. So in this case it should likely be /home/vagrant/Code/public
You mapped codebase to Code, and you mapped myapp.com to Code.
If you currently have an app in codebase/app1/index.php, then this wouldn't work because myapp.com is looking for index.php inside Code.
Thus, you need to access either: myapp.com:8000/app1 OR you need to remap sites like so (and do this for every site/app folder inside codebase):
sites:
- map: myapp.com
to: /home/vagrant/Code/app1
Note that you need to replace app1 with whatever you called your app's folder in XAMPP

Homestead 2.0 giving issues on Yosemite

I have this strange problem. Let me describe it:
The mapping on the .yaml doesn't work. forum.app will just open up a Google search.
The debug is set to true for local, yet, errors aren't presented in browser. They're logged though.
I am using Homestead 2.0, Laravel 4 (everything is latest) on a Yosemite (updated today). The code is here:
YAML file
---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
- map: /Users/aligajani/Dropbox/Work/Code
to: /home/vagrant/Code
sites:
- map: forum.app
to: /home/vagrant/Code/CommunityFT/forum/public
databases:
- homestead
variables:
- key: APP_ENV
value: local
HOSTS file
#Added by XAMPP Control
127.0.0.1 Alis-MacBook-Pro.local
192.168.10.10 forum.app
In order to get forum.app to be a valid domain that works with Homestead, you'll need to point it to your local computer in your hosts file.
You can do this by opening up terminal, and typing vim /etc/hosts, then add the line:
127.0.0.1 forum.app
Your browser may fail to look up the forum.app domain too, so remember to try adding a forward slash teh first time you visit it, so forum.app/, this will prevent the browser trying to google it.
Errors not being presented to the browser may be something to do with this pull request:
https://github.com/laravel/homestead/pull/140
Which is an Nginx configuration issue.
Hope this helps!

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