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Posted by Solomon Scott
Solomon Scott
20,586 Points

Laravel - How to set up a different project

I'm trying to set up a different project besides the one I did for the tutorial. When I try to use the Homestead.yaml to change where the laravel.dev localhost points, I sill get the old project. I'm not sure if there is anything else I have to change?

3 Answers

geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points

I'm still following the tutorial and thus haven't tried to create another project yet. But I think the matter is to change information in the host file.

For exemple I'm on linux, the host file is located at /etc/hosts If I open that file I have this and some others information I deleted:

127.0.0.1 laravel.dev /* Which is what I set for the tutorial.

127.0.0.1 newProject.dev /* Which is what I would add for another project*/

127.0.0.1 localhost

127.0.1.1 Geo-On-The-Web

This way, now I could access it by typing newProject.dev:8000, such as we do in the tutorial.

Solomon Scott
Solomon Scott
20,586 Points

I just did that and everything work perfectly. Thanks!

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

Just in case you swapped out the entire site: section for a new project, you can add multiple sites to homestead.yaml

sites:
    - map: laravel-basics.dev
      to: /home/vagrant/Sites/laravel-basics/public   
    - map: another-project.dev
      to: /home/vagrant/Sites/another-project/public
    - map: yet-another-project.dev
      to: /home/vagrant/Sites/yet-another-project/public

After you've made your changes in Homestead.yaml, run

vagrant provision
Aj Villalobos
Aj Villalobos
1,864 Points
Aj Villalobos
Aj Villalobos
1,864 Points

Did you generate a new laravel project for that? I'm not sure you could do that.

composer create-project laravel/laravel [project]

geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points
geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points

What does exactly the vagrant provision command do ? It takes into considerations the changements done in the Homestead Yaml file ? I've checked the vagrant documentation https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/provision.html but it doesn't talk a lot to me...

Solomon Scott
Solomon Scott
20,586 Points

From what I read, that is exactly what it does.