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Laravel Homestead Manual Installation

Getting Started

Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, HHVM, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. Read more...

Download

Download homestead box using this link:

https://atlas.hashicorp.com/laravel/boxes/homestead/versions/0.5.0/providers/virtualbox.box

NOTE: You can change the version of homestead box. Current version: 0.5.0.

After downloading the box, you will get a file named hc-download rename it to something like virtualbox.box or whatever name you like. Just don't forget to include the .box extension.

Vagrant

Now, you can add the downloaded box to vagrant:

vagrant box add laravel/homestead file:///c:/users/idecardo/downloads/virtualbox.box

NOTE: Change the path where you stored your downloaded box.

Complete

Navigate to vagrant directory:

c:/users/idecardo/.vagrant.d/boxes/laravel-VAGRANTSLASH-homestead

Create a metadata_url file and add this link:

https://atlas.hashicorp.com/laravel/homestead

NOTE: Do not add a newline.

Rename folder 0 to 0.5.0

NOTE: 0.5.0 is you homestead box version.

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