Laravel installer howto.

[mariuskubilius]

The docs should mention how to properly install laravel, and use all the features with scotchbox... as people coming from your sites laravel tutorials will definitely have problems doing so.

Also basically can't use laravel installer out of the box used composer to install laravel.

[whatnickcodes]

I actually plan on making some demo videos for this soon. I'll keep this open until I do (hopefully soon).

[mariuskubilius]

I needed to add ~/.composser/vendor/bin to PATH and it worked... it was already installed.
the string is: export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"
next enter command . ~/.profile

[JamieBradders]

Hi there, I'm assuming this ticket has been closed because some videos have been put together? Please can you provide links? Looking to try scotch box with Laravel :)

[whatnickcodes]

Reopening. You can follow the instructions from above

[bill-barron]

How much trouble would it be to modify the scotch-box vagrant image and add "~/.composser/vendor/bin" to PATH? It just seems like every user of scotch-box has to manually complete the installation of composer themselves which is supposed to come pre-installed.

[chrisvogt]

This is already done @bill-barron. I can access composer from the CLI on a fresh image. However, the version of composer is from 10/04/2014 and prints a warning that it needs to be updated. (Even without updating I have yet to run into an issue.)

It could be convenient for Scotch Box to auto-update select packages during provisioning.

[mikethrussell]

@chrisvogt, @bill-barron is correct. Composer runs without a hitch (despite the warning), but the CLI 'laravel' command will not work (command not found) until ~/.bashrc is updated.

See the 2nd answer here: http://goo.gl/ for details; surely this can already be present in the vagrant box?

[chrisvogt]

@mikethrussell, not sure if I follow you because I haven't run into this myself. I'm trying to research what the laravel command is, and cannot find it - is this different than artisan?

Regardless, until @ncerminara implements this (which I see in #29 he plans to), you should be able to bootstrap the Vagrant file and do this during provisioning.

Check out jakubgg/scotch-box4dev for an example of how to run shell scripts during provisioning. @mariuskubilius provides the command above (I haven't tested/confirmed):

  export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"

Hope this helps out until the issue is resolved. (While you are at it, you may want to tell composer to auto-update during provisioning too.)

[FDiskas]

For laravel use this https://github.com/CodersAKL/laravel-vagrant

[whatnickcodes]

In regards to @FDiskas comment:

Scotch Box exceeds the minimum requirements for Laravel (besides this Path bug). For Laravel, you can use Scotch Box or Homestead. Homestead is officially supported by Laravel and is the best option for your Laravel projects.

[FDiskas]

Homestead I could't load for some reason. Scotch Box - needs to install the laravel manually and the project will not be at the public folder. And I like the SASS+COMPASS to be implemented as well. I don't want to do extra steps to make it work.

[whatnickcodes]

In hopes of clarifying any confusion this causes readers:

• Laravel runs perfectly fine with Scotch Box.
• Homestead is the best option for Laravel regardless if @FDiskas got it working or not.

[FDiskas]

Yes sure and for installing a Homestead you need to do all this stuff - why?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jPnneunSV4&list=PLiZKDvbBdxyYDYsMgQCnLVyTw84sR1VU3

Why not just make all this stuff automatically?

[whatnickcodes]

Hey guys

Run: vagrant box update

Composer and Laravel are now in the PATH

[rach7110]

I still can't access my Laravel project using Scotch Box 2.0. I followed the instructions on the Scotch Box homepage: https://box.scotch.io/

I cloned the scotch box repo, and it subsequently added these files and directory:

$  ~: git clone https://github.com/scotch-io/scotch-box.git my-project
$  ~: cd my-project
$  my-project: ls
   README.md   Vagrantfile   public/

But I'm confused as to what I should do after Step 5 in the Scotch Box 2.0 instructions in order to access my project. I tried cloning my existing Laravel project into the public folder:

$  my-project: cd public/
$  public: git clone https://github.com/my-username/my-laravel-project
$  public: ls public/
   my-laravel-project/

But when I visit 192.168.33.10 in my browser, I just see the directory structure. So that isn't right (unless I'm missing a step here.) Or was I supposed to initially clone the Scotch Box repo into my existing Laravel project folder? Or something else?

Thanks!

[whatnickcodes]

Okay that makes sense.

Try

cd my-project # Go into whatever folder scotch box is
rm index.php # Get rid of that starter file because we don't need it
git clone https://github.com/my-username/my-laravel-project . # include a "dot" at the end to do current directory instead of my-laravel-project folder

Boom boom boom booom

[rach7110]

Thanks, @ncerminara! That solved my issue.

And for clarity, I removed the index.php file from the public folder and also cloned my Laravel project inside that same public folder:

cd my-project/public
rm index.php
git clone https://github.com/my-username/my-laravel-project .

[whatnickcodes]

So you're good?

[markeilander]

Composer works, laravel doesn't.

[weber-stephen]

Followed this tutorial and it mostly worked, but there is an error.
http://dobsondev.com/scotch-box-laravel/