How to build a Laravel development environment

My personal notes on creating a local Laravel development environment.

Table of Contents

• Laravel Homestead
  • macOS
    • Prerequisites
    • The list of used commands in terminal
    • The whole terminal screen history in a file
    • The result
  • Linux
    • Prerequisites

## Laravel Homestead

Laravel's official development environment (vagrant/virtualbox)

Useful urls:
Laravel Homestead official homepage
Laravel Homestead on GitHub
laravel/homestead on Atlas: the official, pre-packaged Vagrant box
Laravel Settler: The scripts that build the Laravel Homestead development environment.

macOS

Prerequisites

• macOS Sierra Version 10.12.3 (16D32)
  
• ORACLE VM VirtualBox Version 5.1.16 r113841 + Extension Pack
  
• Vagrant 1.9.2
  

The list of used commands in terminal

• laravel_vagrant_commands.txt

The whole terminal screen history in a file

• laravel_vagrant_stdin_stdout.txt

The result

homestead.app

Linux

If you use Linux for your primary local development OS you have to do like this except for a few minor differences.

Prerequisites

• any Linux distribution, Ubuntu Server 16.04.2 LTS or Debian 8.7.1 suggested
  
• ORACLE VM VirtualBox Version 5.1.16 r113841 for Ubuntu 16.04 ("Xenial") or for Debian 8 ("Jessie") + Extension Pack
  
• Vagrant 1.9.2
  

Best wishes!