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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Getting Started with Laravel Installing Laravel Homestead

Pierce McGeough
Pierce McGeough
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Posted by Pierce McGeough
Pierce McGeough
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Can I map my app to a folder outside of my Homestead folder.

Can I ahve my homestead folder with vagrant file etc and map those to my dev folder elsewhere on my system?

1 Answer

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
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Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

Yes you can have Homestead map files to different folders on you computer. Located the homestead.yaml file inside the homestead folder. Inside that file you should see something like this:

folders:
    - map: ~/Homestead/Projects
      to: /home/vagrant/Sites

You can change the value of the map attribute to anywhere on you local machine. So for instance, I could map it to a Sites folder in my documents folder:

folders:
    - map: ~/Documents/My\ Documents/Sites
      to: /home/vagrant/Sites