Using vagrant and homestead for multiple sites and per project installation

By using Homestead in your way, you create a virtual machine for each projects. Therefore, the VirtualBox cannot forward the HTTP request from your host machine for all of virtual machine. You can only run one machine (so, one project) each time.

To run multiple projects with Homestead, you can do as follow:

• Clone Homestead git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead
• Inside the Homestead folder, run bash init.sh

Edit the folders property of ~/.homestead/Homestead.yaml to share your code of both projects with VM:

folders:    - map: ~/pj1      to: /path/to/project1    - map: ~/pj2      to: /path/to/project2

Edit the sites property of ~/.homestead/Homestead.yaml to make Nginx enable the domain of both site:

sites:    - map: project1.local      to: /home/vagrant/pj1/public    - map: project2.local      to: /home/vagrant/pj2/public

Edit your hosts file to forward these domain fo localhost

127.0.0.1 project1.local127.0.0.1 project2.local

• Run vagrant up at the folder that you cloned the Homestead code inside it (which contains the init.sh file).

Now, you can run as many project as you want with just one Homestead virtual machine.

There are some important steps missing in the accepted answer although it helped me lot. I have added those necessary steps. Thanks @Hieu Le for answer.

I assume you have correctly installed your fist site as by the instructions of Laravel docs. Now you have another laravel site which you want to shift on vagrant. Follow the following steps.

1. cd into the directory of new Laravel project which you want to add. I assume you have all laravel files in it and its working using MAMP or any non-vagrant solution.
2. run vagrant init laravel/homestead. This command will add the necessary VagrantFile in this new project.
3. open the directory of your first original project file and open itsHomestead.yaml file in editor.

4. Now follow the steps defined by @Hieu Le in accepted answer tomodify .yaml file

   folders:     - map: ~/pj1       to: /path/to/project1     - map: ~/pj2       to: /path/to/project2sites:    - map: project1.local      to: /home/vagrant/pj1/public    - map: project2.local      to: /home/vagrant/pj2/public

   Edit your hosts file to forward these domain fo localhost

   127.0.0.1 project1.local127.0.0.1 project2.local

5. On terminal cd into your first original original projectdirectory.
6. Run command vagrant reload --provision. This will reload thevagrant machine so that the changes which we made in .yaml file come in effect. You database of original project will remain intact.
7. Run vagrant ssh
8. Run ls and make sure you can see the folder of your new project. If its thereyou have configured your new site correctly.
9. Hit the url of new site with addition of http:// and your areDONE.

Like how here says, you can install Homestead directly into your project, require it using this composer require laravel/homestead --dev at root directory of each project you have. Now by make command you can generate Vagrantfile and Homestead.yaml file into your project's root directory.

• Mac/Linux:

  php vendor/bin/homestead make

• Windows:

  vendor\bin\homestead make

On each project root you will have a Homestead.yaml file to edit:

• Project-A

  ip: "192.168.10.10"...folders:    - map: "~/Code/projecta"      to: "/home/vagrant/projecta"sites:    - map: project.a      to: "/home/vagrant/projecta/public"

• Project-B

  ip: "192.168.10.10"...folders:    - map: "~/Code/projectb"      to: "/home/vagrant/projectb"sites:    - map: project.b      to: "/home/vagrant/projectb/public"

Add this to /etc/hosts:

    192.168.10.10 project.a    192.168.10.10 project.b

Then you have to cd to each project's root and vagrant up.Now if you vagrant ssh from each project, you will have that project in your VM environment.