Level 15
Run through the official docs which are pretty great: http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/homestead
The command to bring the box up is: vagrant up
Come back if you are still having issues after thoroughly going over the docs though.
Nov 25, 2015
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Level 2
Where art thou, Homestead?
I am very, very, VERY new to Laravel. Because of my unfamiliarity with all of this, I am going to write out as much as I can to explain my environment and situation (so forgive me if some of this is not necessary to solve the problem or even off topic)!
First, the facts:
- I am running a Mac with OS X Yosemite and am trying to get Laravel going on my machine.
- I have downloaded VirtualBox and Vagrant and installed each of those.
- In Terminal, I get a command list when I run vagrant, so that seems to be okay.
- I ran vagrant box add laravel/homestead and selected 1 for virtualbox (successfully added message)
- I ran composer global require "laravel/homestead=~2.0" (which is telling me there is nothing to install or update)
- I ran curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer (which told me all settings are correct for using Composer, downloaded it, and successfully installed it to: /Users/Me/composer.phar)
Now, for the problem: When I try homestead, I am getting:
-bash: homestead: command not found
I don't really know much about Terminal (as I am sure is obvious). I have tried to work through the instructions in a Laravel book I bought, through online resources (including this site), and through Laracasts, but no matter what I do, I am getting the "command not found" message when trying to run homestead.
Anyone know what's going on here?
Level 2
Yeah, I've taken the time to go through as much of the official docs as I can, but I keep getting stuck. (And my apologies - I did use vagrant up. ;)
I am still getting the same command not found message every time I try running homestead. I can ls and see a Homestead folder (and have tried cd into there and running homestead from in there but get the same not found message). An ls inside Homestead reveals these:
LICENSE.txt
composer.json
homestead
readme.md
src
Vagrantfile
composer.lock
init.sh
scripts
I can't understand why this message keeps popping up. Any suggestions or solutions?
Level 65
There's no command for that any more?
Level 2
Is that a question or a statement? lol
Level 2
I am going to try working through the Getting Started Laracast again - perhaps I missed something!
Level 65
Both. I'm not 100% sure but I believe it was removed. I just wanted someone to confirm my post. :)
Level 15
Your terminal reports:
"-bash: homestead: command not found"
Which tells me you issued homestead as the command at the prompt. Bash tells you that the command isn't found because it is not a valid command--it doesn't exist. It can't be run. The correct command to bring the box up is vagrant up. Where did you try vagrant up? What if any error(s) did you receive?
http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/homestead#launching-the-vagrant-box
Am I missing something?
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