How do I access or reference my php installation on homestead from inside the host.

If you are on Windows, what I have done is Install WAMP which comes Bundled with PHP.

You do not need to run it, ever.

Then create a Windows Path File, and set the PHP Executable from within WAMP. Check this tutorial on setting a new PATH: https://john-dugan.com/add-php-windows-path-variable/

Yh, as I already stated, installing WAMP or XAMPP will mean installing PHP on my host PC. I was looking at an instance where I can utilize the one installed on my homestead vm.

as I mentioned, this does not Install PHP on your Main Machine. It just comes bundled with WAMP. So it will not mess with anything else. It will not be running as a background process.

On the other hand, you can access your Virtual Machine like this:

• Go to your Homestead Directory, by default ~\Homestead
• From there, up the machine with vagrant up
• After machine is up, you can vagrant ssh into the machine
• From the virtual machine, navigate to your project, and you can execute any PHP-commands from there. - Note: You are in a Linux Environment here - You need to Run Linux Commands to Navigate, like ls instead of dir

@xmarks Your steps are how I should access my homestead vm. My question is I want to link Visula Studio code with the PHP executable on the homestead vm.

Switch to PHP Storm. This is built in using Vagrant tools ;)

@Cronix Thanks will check it out.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/configuring-remote-php-interpreters.html#d37018e361