Using Laravel Homestead: 'no input file specified'

Question

Instead of reinstalling try

vagrant up --provision

or

homestead up --provision

I had the same exact problem and found the solution through the use of larachat.

Here's how to fix it you need to have your homestead.yaml file settings correct. If you want to know how its done follow Jeffery Way tutorial on homestead 2.0 https://laracasts.com/lessons/say-hello-to-laravel-homestead-two.

Now to fix Input not specified issue you need to ssh into homestead box and type

serve domain.app /home/vagrant/Code/path/to/public/directory this will generate a serve script for nginx. You will need to do this everytime you switch projects.

He also discussed what I explained in this series https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-5-fundamentals/

This is easy to fix, because you have changed the folder name to: exampleproject

So SSH to your vagrant:

ssh [email protected] -p 2222

Then change your nginx config:

sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/homestead.app

Edit the correct URI to the root on line 3 to this with the new folder name:

root "/Users/MYUSERNAME/Code/exampleproject/public";

Restart Nginx

sudo service nginx reload

Reload the web browser, it should work now

For me the following worked:

vagrant reload --provision

Giving my response just in case if anybody struggling with this issue.

1. You might need to verify that the server.root configuration in "/etc/ngnx/sites-available/domain" matching with your sites.to config in "Homestead.yaml".

2. If its not matching then change it and restart the webserver with "sudo service nginx restart"

3. And still things are not working then allow write permission for the "YOURSITE/app/storage" folder as "chmod -R 777 app/storage"

I also had the same problem, I had assumed that Laravel is installed "out of the box" but it seems it isn't. I SSH'ed to the machine and ran these commands:

cd Code
sudo composer self-update #not necessary, but I did it anyways
composer create-project laravel/laravel Laravel --prefer-dist

And everything was running as usual.