@sitesense I have changed the path and I am just installing a local version of Laravel in the Code folder. @Coderooney You have been a absolute star in helping me today.

I can now see the Laravel 5 welcome message :) Thank you soooo very much to @coderooney and @sitesense

@Coderooney - Call the local folder Projects if you like, that's fine, but I wouldn't confuse a beginner by changing the default Homestead Code folder within the VM. Any tutorial/advice followed after that is bound to create issues.

@sitesense Hrm, that's true. I guess I just noticed that Robert's first example was already working with 'Projects' as his Code folder and 'test' as his project folder, so I thought it'd be easier to wrap his head around language he was already using.

@Robert-Broley Again, no problem at all. I registered because I heard this Laravel community looked out for each other :)

• I can now see the Laravel 5 welcome message :)

Great!

Now it's plain sailing. When you come to create a new Laravel app in your local 'Code' folder like laravel new mynewapp just add the mapping to your 'Homestead.yaml' file like this:

sites:
    - map: homestead.app
      to: /home/vagrant/Code/Laravel/public
    - map: mynewapp.app
      to: /home/vagrant/Code/mynewapp/public

Then be sure to add the new entry to your hosts file.

You'll need to serve the new site but cross that bridge when you come to it.

Haha I think you're almost forgetting what site you're on! Jeffrey has as free, 27-part, 6-hour series guiding you through all these little things: Laravel 5 Fundamentals Like @sitesense says, there are bridges to cross later, but that series will help you with many of them. Most of the videos here aren't free, so make use of it!

Thanks again, managed to get MySQL working with WorkBench :)

Hurrah! Make sure you stick around- I will be :D

I have had to reinstall Windows due to some errors, however I have installed Laravel Homestead but when I visit homestad.app I get the following error:

No input file specified.

I had to manually install PHP I am running version 5.6.11 I have tried various methods and I am able to get it working using php artisan serve

its possible homestead auto start with win, automaticly? tnks