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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Getting Started with Laravel Installing Laravel Homestead

Stephen Blank
Stephen Blank
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Posted by Stephen Blank
Stephen Blank
16,286 Points

Change in the installation steps for Homestead?

In the "Installing Laravel Homestead" video, Hampton talks about editing a yaml file after generating a key. But it seems the installation steps have changed, and no yaml file exists in a freshly cloned Homestead repository. The new steps say something about running a composer command, but the instructions don't say anything about installing composer. Is composer a separate download? Or is it something that comes with homestead?

http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/homestead

3 Answers

Stephen Blank
Stephen Blank
16,286 Points
Stephen Blank
Stephen Blank
16,286 Points

Ok, I've worked through this. The instructions on the Laravel site have been updated, so are a little different than the video.

You do not have to clone the homestead git repository. I did the following:

  • Install composer using Homebrew for OSX. Homebrew can be installed with this command:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
  • Update formulae and Homebrew, and add some repositories:
brew doctor
brew update
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew tap homebrew/php
  • Install composer via Homebrew. You can use the --ignore-dependencies option if you already have PHP installed:
brew install composer --ignore-dependencies
  • Install the Homestead CLI
composer global require "laravel/homestead=~2.0"
  • Add the Homestead bin directory to your $PATH variable:
PATH=$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin
  • Create the Homestead.yaml configuration file. It will be created at /Users/YourUserName/.homestead/Homestead.yaml
homestead init
  • Edit the Homestead.yaml file (now you can rejoin the video where Hampton talks about editing this file)
homestead edit
  • When Hampton talks about starting the box with the vagrant up command, use the following instead:
homestead up

Hope this helps future viewers

Austin Langdon
Austin Langdon
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Austin Langdon
Austin Langdon
12,667 Points

Steve - thank you for the detailed instructions. Much appreciated.

Marco Bustos
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Marco Bustos
Marco Bustos
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and what are the steps to install in windows???

James Polis
James Polis
5,382 Points
James Polis
James Polis
5,382 Points

In the Homestead docs, it says to run: 

bash init.sh

and it will create the Homestead.yaml file!