Homestead virtualbox error, the host path of the shared folder is missing: ~/Code

Question

Iam trying to use homestead laravel, seems some issue that am feeling strange.

root@seetha-H81M-S:/home# homestead up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
There are errors in the configuration of this machine. Please fix
the following errors and try again:

vm:
* The host path of the shared folder is missing: ~/Code

homestead.yaml

ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
provider: virtualbox

authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

keys:
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa

folders:
- map: ~/Code
  to: /home/Homestead

sites:
- map: nal.app
  to: /home/seetha/Homestead/nal/public

There is a folder named Homestead in /home/Homestead , still seems not working. I have find similar questions in stack-overflow but nothing seems working for me.

Can anyone help me to solve this issue. Thanks in advance.

OS Ubuntu 14.04

Answer 1

I had the same problem and fixed it by bash init.sh

Run the bash init.sh command from the Homestead directory to create the Homestead.yaml configuration file. The Homestead.yaml file will be placed in the ~/.homestead hidden directory.

If you are changing Homestead.yaml again, you have to re-run bash init.sh again. It will ask for overwrite, say yes.

Answer 2

You have this issue when your folders are not properly mapped.

This is how to map your folders in vagrant Homestead.yaml

folders:
- map: ~/Code    
  to: /home/vagrant/Code

~/Code means /home/yourUsername/Code must exist in your host computer. The code folder will house all your Laravel apps.

Example you could have the following apps in Code folder which are on your host

/home/vagrant/Code/laravelapp

/home/vagrant/Code/laravelapp2

Homestead.yaml may now look like this

---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1

authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

keys:
    - ~/.ssh/id_rsa

folders:
    - map: /wamp/www   
      to: /home/vagrant/Code

sites:
    - map: laravel.dev
      to: /home/vagrant/Code/laravelapp/public
    - map: laravel.dev2
      to: /home/vagrant/Code/laravelapp2/public

databases:
    - homestead

variables:
    - key: APP_ENV
      value: local

# blackfire:
#     - id: foo
#       token: bar