LARAVEL 4 BASICS
Getting Started with Laravel
Installing VirtualBox, Homestead & Vagrant
- Download VirtualBox for your OS from their website
- Download Vagrant for your OS from their website
- Use a command to install install Homestead
vagrant box add laravel/homestead
In a shell, check that you have SSH.
cd ~ ls -la # check for .ssh
If not, you can generate a key.
In terminal:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "youremail@email.com".
There is also a great guide on GitHub.
https://help.github.com/articles/generating-an-ssh-key/
Init the Homestead.yaml file
bash init.sh
In ~/Homestead, alter the Homestead.yaml file.
- Replace "me" with the User
- Under "folders" where it has the map and to, change the to direction to have .../Sites if you don't want the default and to follow along with TH.
Sites we can change to anything. Eg. laravel.dev
Ensure sites is okay too and that the Sites/<here>/<here> is laravel-basics/public
Run the Vagrant Up command in terminal vagrant up
If there is a host issue, change the Homestead.yaml host.
Getting into the box
Connect via SSH
run vagrant ssh
Install Laravel
Ensure composer is installed on your external SSH OS.
Run composer global require "laravel/installer"
Composer Create-Project
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravel-basics
Alternatively...
laravel new laravel-basics
Note laravel-basics can be swapped for anything.
Run pwd and check this against what you have in ~/.homestead/Homestead.yaml
Then jump to the site (127.0.0.1:8000) to see if it is running successfully.
To get rid of the 127.0.0.1, we can change it to another host.
cd /etc from the Homestead file and adjust the hosts file in a text editor to make the website easier to navigate to.