Laravel Homestead Manual Installation

homestead-manual-install.md

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:

https://app.vagrantup.com/laravel/boxes/homestead/versions/9.5.1/providers/virtualbox.box

You can change the version of homestead box. Current version: 9.5.1.

After downloading the box, rename it to virtualbox.box or whatever name you like.

Don't forget to include the .box extension.

Vagrant

Add the downloaded homestead box to vagrant:

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

Change the path to where you stored your downloaded homestead box.

Update homestead box

Navigate to vagrant directory:

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

Create a metadata_url file and add this link:

https://app.vagrantup.com/laravel/boxes/homestead

Do not add a newline.

Rename folder 0 to 9.5.1

9.5.1 is your homestead box version.

Alternative

Using gitbash, within c:/users/idecardo/.vagrant.d/boxes/laravel-VAGRANTSLASH-homestead directory:

touch metadata_url
echo -n 'https://app.vagrantup.com/laravel/boxes/homestead' > metadata_url
mv 0 9.5.1

@idecardo very helpful... Thank you very much

Thanks.. I will try..

does this for mac?

Thanks mate for this.

And how difficult was this for the Laravel/Homestead team to explain?

Why they keep everything so complicated, It was meant to make development easy, instead it made it worse, Not everyone have high speed internet and Installing on many PC would be really stupid the way they do.

Many thanks from behind Chinese firewall here ;D

Thanks a lot! This works on Mac sierra.

Only thing though is that when I did my first 'vagrant up' it complained about being unable to check the metadata because of "illegal characters found in url"

I made sure not to include a line return but I think my editor might add one by default

@vesper8 I saw the same warning here, have you found a solution to it? Thanks!

Please i have installed vagrant and i have changed the folder from 0 to 4.0.0 but when i vagrant up it show this error

The provider 'virtualbox' that was requested to back the machine
'homestead-7' is reporting that it isn't usable on this system. The
reason is shown below:

Vagrant has detected that you have a version of VirtualBox installed
that is not supported by this version of Vagrant. Please install one of
the supported versions listed below to use Vagrant:

4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.0, 5.1

A Vagrant update may also be available that adds support for the version
you specified. Please check www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html to download
the latest version.

Please i need help

@kelvinrolex I solved that issue with the fix discussed here: hashicorp/vagrant#9090

@YahzeeSkellington, thanks so much... Problem solved.

thankyou so much bro!

Hi @idecardo, the main domain has changed to https://app.vagrantup.com. Then, it should be downloaded now through: https://app.vagrantup.com/laravel/boxes/homestead/versions/5.1.0/providers/virtualbox.box

Thanks. =D

*5.1.0 is currently the latest version of Laravel Homestead box.

@idecardo That works fine with the 5.2.0 release also. Thank you!

Works like charm!

Downloading boxes offline is way faster than vagrant add ...

or you can download directly from this drive https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AGNBKHeCev0M1x4&id=CAE7E9182E2886E1%21246481&cid=CAE7E9182E2886E1

@lucasctd thanks! I've updated the gist to reflect the updated domain.

Create a metadata_url file and add this link:
https://app.vagrantup.com/laravel/homestead

The link has been changed. Valid link for now is https://app.vagrantup.com/laravel/boxes/homestead

really help a lot, thank

The link is now changed .New link for virtual box:
https://vagrantcloud.com/laravel/boxes/homestead/versions/9.2.2-alpha1/providers/virtualbox.box

that's worked for me. thanks lots.

when i run vagrant up download again like before

C:\Users\ilhamsj\Homestead>vagrant up
Bringing machine 'homestead' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> homestead: Box 'laravel/homestead' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
    homestead: Box Provider: virtualbox
    homestead: Box Version: >= 9.5.0
==> homestead: Loading metadata for box 'laravel/homestead'
    homestead: URL: https://vagrantcloud.com/laravel/homestead
==> homestead: Adding box 'laravel/homestead' (v10.0.0-beta) for provider: virtualbox
    homestead: Downloading: https://vagrantcloud.com/laravel/boxes/homestead/versions/10.0.0-beta/providers/virtualbox.box
==> homestead: Box download is resuming from prior download progress
Download redirected to host: vagrantcloud-files-production.s3.amazonaws.com
Progress: 0% (Rate: 33352/s, Estimated time remaining: 3:11:16)           

@asamofal thanks! I've updated the gist to reflect the updated link.

when i run vagrant up download again like before

C:\Users\ilhamsj\Homestead>vagrant up
Bringing machine 'homestead' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> homestead: Box 'laravel/homestead' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
    homestead: Box Provider: virtualbox
    homestead: Box Version: >= 9.5.0
==> homestead: Loading metadata for box 'laravel/homestead'
    homestead: URL: https://vagrantcloud.com/laravel/homestead
==> homestead: Adding box 'laravel/homestead' (v10.0.0-beta) for provider: virtualbox
    homestead: Downloading: https://vagrantcloud.com/laravel/boxes/homestead/versions/10.0.0-beta/providers/virtualbox.box
==> homestead: Box download is resuming from prior download progress
Download redirected to host: vagrantcloud-files-production.s3.amazonaws.com
Progress: 0% (Rate: 33352/s, Estimated time remaining: 3:11:16)           

i'm too, is you solved this?