How can I refresh homestead for a new site in my environment?

Question

I'm running Laravel 4 on my development machine (Mac) with homestead and enjoying it thus far but having trouble when adding a new site. The problem is that I add lines like this for a new site in my ~/.homestead/Homestead.yaml file:

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

sites:
    - map: listingnaples.dev
      to: /home/vagrant/Sites/listingnaples.com/public

    - map: videocraftersusa.dev
      to: /home/vagrant/Sites/videocraftersusa.com/

Then, my /etc/hosts looks like this:

# MY SITES
192.168.10.10 listingnaples.dev
192.168.10.10 videocraftersusa.dev
192.168.10.10 laneyandchris.dev

If i go in and do a homestead destroy followed by homestead up I can access any of those new sites. That deletes my databases though and really sets me back. How do I "refresh" so to speak? If I add myawesomesite.dev to my /etc/hosts, how can I have homestead pick it up?

I tried homestead --provision but that isn't a recognized command.

For what it's worth, in my ~/.homestead/ directory, I do not have a VagrantFile. Not sure where that's at so I can't run a vagrant provision either.

Answer 1

You can also reload the box and the settings

vagrant reload --provision

This reload the box and see if there are changes, if that's the case it will make the changes while reloading