Laravel add hosts entry and vhosts to an xampp environment

testenv.php

<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class testenv extends Command
{
    /**
     * The name and signature of the console command.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $signature = 'testenv:register {path}';

    /**
     * The console command description.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $description = 'Register the testenv';

    /**
     * Create a new command instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        if (PHP_OS != "WINNT") {
            $this->error("This command can only be run on windows for now");
            return;
        }
            $basepath = base_path();
            $pubpath = public_path();
            $domain = $this->input->getArgument('path');

            exec('powershell.exe Start-Process powershell.exe -ArgumentList \'Add-Content -Path C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts -Value \"127.0.0.1`t' . $domain . '\" -Force\' -Verb runAs');

            $vhc = [];
            $vhc[] = "### ADDED BY ADDHOST: " . date("Y-m-d H:i:s") . "###";
            $vhc[] = "<VirtualHost *:80>";
            $vhc[] = "\tServerAdmin webmaster@localhost";
            $vhc[] = "\tDocumentRoot $pubpath";
            $vhc[] = "\tServerName $domain";
            $vhc[] = "\tServerAlias www.{$domain} *.{$domain}";
            $vhc[] = "\tErrorLog \"logs/{$domain}-error.log\"";
            $vhc[] = "\tCustomLog \"logs/{$domain}-access.log\" common";
            $vhc[] = "";
            $vhc[] = "\t<Directory \"$pubpath\">";
            $vhc[] = "\t\tOptions Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI";
            $vhc[] = "\t\tAllowOverride All";
            $vhc[] = "\t\tOrder allow,deny";
            $vhc[] = "\t\tAllow from all";
            $vhc[] = "\t</Directory>";
            $vhc[] = "</VirtualHost>";

            $apache_extra_dir = str_replace('php.exe', '', PHP_BINARY);
            $apache_extra_dir .= '..\\apache\\conf\\extra\\';

            file_put_contents($apache_extra_dir . "httpd-vhosts.conf", PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL . implode(PHP_EOL, $vhc), FILE_APPEND);

            $this->info('Please restart your apache webserver for changes to take effect.');
    }
}