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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
@arthurtaras
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Many thanks from behind Chinese firewall here ;D

@vesper8
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vesper8 commented Jul 25, 2017

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

@haoxi911
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@vesper8 I saw the same warning here, have you found a solution to it? Thanks!

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ghost commented Nov 1, 2017

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

@YahzeeSkellington
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YahzeeSkellington commented Nov 2, 2017 •
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@kelvinrolex I solved that issue with the fix discussed here: hashicorp/vagrant#9090

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ghost commented Nov 2, 2017

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

@thofik93
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thankyou so much bro!

@lucasctd
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lucasctd commented Feb 6, 2018

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.

@ibrahimi3
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@idecardo That works fine with the 5.2.0 release also. Thank you!

@rameshnavi
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Works like charm!

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

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fide1 commented May 5, 2018

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

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idecardo commented Sep 28, 2018 •
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@lucasctd thanks! I've updated the gist to reflect the updated domain.

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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

@ShakalakaB
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really help a lot, thank

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sajjadanwar0 commented Jan 6, 2020 •
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The link is now changed .New link for virtual box:
https://vagrantcloud.com/laravel/boxes/homestead/versions/9.2.2-alpha1/providers/virtualbox.box

@slyang-git
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that's worked for me. thanks lots.

@ilhamsj
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ilhamsj commented Jun 26, 2020

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)

@idecardo
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idecardo commented Jul 5, 2020

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

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adibpwd commented Apr 24, 2022

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?

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