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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Getting Started with Laravel Installing Laravel Homestead

Posted by Daniel Ram
Daniel Ram
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Click here to install your environment to match the course!

Homestead has changed some of the directory paths and the course covers Laravel 4.2. To match your environment to the course so you can fully follow along complete these instructions.

To match to the correct version for Homstead/Laravel:

  1. Open Terminal
  2. run command: git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead
  3. reset to this commit: git reset --hard bf70b7b34ac72e59103fbcfe8a51714eb7127356

To get the correct vagrant box:

  1. Open Terminal
  2. Run command: vagrant box add laravel/homestead --box-version "0.2.0"

Complete instructions that are in the course for setup then:

  1. Open Terminal
  2. run command: vagrant Up
  3. run command: vagrant ssh.

You're good to go! :)