Updating and Separating the Homestead folder and Project folder

update-homestead.md

My homestead VM used to be in D:\www\Homestead and all projects lived inside its folder. I want to update homestead to the updated version and separate my projects to a new folder (e.g. D:\www\projects), so that I do not acidentally delete them when I need to delete Homestead folder.

1. Update Homestead box. From command prompt, run

   vagrant box update
   

2. Create a new folder for Projects. (D:\www\projects)

3. Move all the projects to the new folder.

4. Back to command prompt and go to Homestead folder to destroy existing box.

   cd D:\www\Homestead
   
   vagrant destroy
   

   and Yes to destroy the existing box.

5. Delete everything in the Homestead folder or cloning Homestead repo to a new folder. See http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/homestead for reference.

6. Back to command prompt again and go into the updated Homestead folder and update the Homestead.yml to make it points to the new project folder.

   Homestead.yml

   folders:
       - map: d:/www/projects
         to:  /home/vagrant/Code
   
   

7. Save the file and now run

   vagrant up
   

8. Don't forget to install phpmyadmin in the vm. See my old gist.