无法在Laravel Homestead中运行工匠命令

Question

After setting up Homestead for 1 specific project only , I want to run the Artisan CLI for database migrations. I tried to follow this tutorial and I keep getting this error:

Could not open input file: artisan

I set up the project by running these commands (Windows):

composer require laravel/homestead --dev
vendor\\bin\\homestead make
vagrant up

And then I made sure to be in the root project directory and then run php artisan list , which gives the error above.

I also tried to ssh into the Homestead VM and navigated to the code folder (where my project resides) and run php artisan list , to which it gives the same error.

Attached is my working directory where I run the artisan command, as requested:

I have tried running it in root dir and in vendor\\\\laravel to no avail.

So how would one run the artisan CLI in a Laravel Homestead project?

Answer 1

I think I've figured it out. The problem was that I haven't set up a Laravel project using composer yet, and skipped to install Laravel Homestead for this project.

So to make a Laravel project named eg quickstart , one should first create the project by running

composer create-project laravel/laravel quickstart --prefer-dist

(see https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/quickstart#installation for more details)

Only after that, set up homestead for the project by running

composer require laravel/homestead --dev
vendor\bin\homestead make

And now the project should be fully initialized.

Refs: https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/homestead#per-project-installation