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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Getting Started with Laravel Installing Laravel

Mike Zhu
Mike Zhu
1,840 Points
Posted by Mike Zhu
Mike Zhu
1,840 Points

Error when vagrant up

I just installed Laravel and everything works fine for me. But the next day, after I restart my computer, I cannot get access to the laravel.dev:8000. It is said that I have to turn on my server again, and after I typed "vagrant up", it reveals the error like this: "Couldn't open file /Users/.../base". After checking online, they said that I should use "vagrant init laravel/homestead" before "vagrant up", but the error says "Vagrantfile already exists in this directory. Remove it before running vagrant init." I am not sure how to turn on my homestead server. I am new to this field and hope someone can help! Thanks!

James Ginns
James Ginns
2,731 Points

I still had a fair amount of questions to this installation process, but the command "vagrant init" is probably to create a vagrant configuration file or Vagrantfile. However, if there is an existing Vagrantfile it doesn't get overwritten. Make a copy of the Vagrantfile in your directory and move it somewhere else. Then try vagrant init again. Hope that helps.