When I started to learn Laravel, I have choosen to use Homestead, the \u201cpre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Actually, I already had Php installed on my machine, as well Apache server and MySql, but I thought it would have been a good opportunity to learn something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though the official documentation<\/a> is quite complete, I needed some more help: I didn\u2019t know anything about Vagrant, I didn\u2019t use Composer, nor Git (I use Mercurial).<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I have googled a bit and I have found some great tutorial. Well, I don\u2019t know if this happens only to me, but I can guarantee you that to me it often happens indeed: I follow some \u201cUltimate tutorial\u201d or some \u201cDefinitive guide to…\u201d and what is was promised to work fails with errors that seem to be unknown to everyone else! It\u2019s really frustrating, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this reason, I\u2019m going to tell you how I have installed, setup and finally got working a Laravel Homestead environment, mentioning the different issues I\u2019ve got into and illustrating the solution I have found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notice: <\/strong>for some parts of the process (as the installation of some software) I\u2019ll give you the links to the official documentation or to some useful article I have found without duplicating here that content. But in general, you should be able to get everything setup and running just reading this article. Or so I hope \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s start with Laravel Homestead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To use Laravel Homestead you need to first install some software:<\/p>\n\n\n\n *it\u2019s not mandatory to use VirtualBox: you can also use Hyper-V, VMWare or Parallels if you feel more comfortable.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n Installing these software is quite easy and painless. Just be sure to get the latest versions of them. Especially for VirtualBox, Laravel requires it be version 5.1 or greater. So, if you have VirtualBox already installed, be sure to check its version: just start VirtualBox and the software itself will notify you if a more recent version is available for your system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If instead you have to install VirtualBox from scratch you can follow this tutorial: https:\/\/www.pcsteps.com\/184-install-virtualbox-linux-mint-ubuntu\/<\/a>: skip everything talks about distro software managers and jump to the section where the author teachs you how the get the latest VirtualBox version for your distro (Windows users have just to download and run the installer from the official site<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the rest you can just refer to links above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As I said, I didn\u2019t find any problem installing any of these softwares so I won\u2019t spend other time on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When you have all softwares installed, just open the command prompt on Windows or a terminal window in Linux (from now on I\u2019ll just call it CLI) and type:<\/p>\n\n\n\nRequired software<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Starting with Laravel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n