"Homestead Improved" Vagrant VM - Failed to restart php7.0-fpm.service: Unit php7.0-fpm.service not found

Question

I'm trying to get a Homestead Improved Vagrant VM instance running on Windows. See Homestead Improved on Github. I'm following this easy introduction: https://www.sitepoint.com/quick-tip-get-homestead-vagrant-vm-running/

My steps are:

git clone https://github.com/swader/homestead_improved my_project
cd my_project
bin/folderfix.sh
vagrant up

Machine boots and is ready. Then provisioner is running. Then I get the follwoing error message:

==> default: Failed to restart php7.0-fpm.service: Unit php7.0-fpm.service not found.

The SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status. Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed. The output for this command should be in the log above. Please read the output to determine what went wrong.

Any hints what to do?

Answer 1

This has been fixed on the repo-level, and should never happen again if you run git pull inside your homestead improved cloned folder (but outside of the VM, not SSH-ed into it). If your machine is already running, you might have to apply the steps below, too. But new machines (so new clones of Homestead Improved) will not have this happen any more). Explanation of what happened is here.

@daniel-sixl please try to re-download/re-clone and start from scratch, everything should be working just fine now.

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Old solution:

Try to change php7.0-fpm to php7.1-fpm - the box was auto-updated to the new version.

You can do this by going into /etc/nginx/sites-available and changing the required file - its name will match the site you defined, as per that post you linked. So probably /etc/nginx/sites-available/homestead.app.

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Edit: added more detailed instructions for people very new to it all.

Ok, so what you need to do is, once you're in the sites-available folder, edit the homestead.app file. Something like sudo vim homestead.app will do just fine, it'll open a basic text editor (that's quite nightmarish to use when you're new at it, so just be patient :) ) Sudo is important, because you are editing a file that only an admin has access to.

Once you're "in", do the following:

• press / (this activates "search") and input php7.0-fpm. This should take you to the line which contains that phrase. If you press / again and press Enter, that works like "find next", so it'll go to the next line having the phrase, or restart from the top if no other lines contain it.
• when your cursor is on the line with php7.0-fpm (you can move it around with arrows of course), press i. This activated "insert" mode. Now you can edit the file.
• change the 7.0 to 7.1.
• press ESC to exit edit mode, and go back into read-only mode.
• repeat for each line with 7.0
• once done, while in read-only mode (ESC to make sure), type :x. Yeah, like an emoticon with cross lips. Press Enter. That's short for "Save and Exit".
• you will now be in the folder again, from where you should execute sudo service nginx restart.

The new configuration should now take effect, and everything should start working.