Laravel Homestead vagrant up box issue

Question

I am installing laravel homestead. As I am new on this so maybe i took some steps wrong while installing and setting up laravel homestead on windows.

I followed a tutorial and download laravel homestead box directly and then install it manually by giving it a local disk url. It installed perfectly fine till then. But now when i am trying to "vagrant up" command it says that box doesnt found.

So after that I read somewhere that it we have to add manyual metadata somewhere but I dont know where. And after some changes I am facing this error.

vagrant cannot find a valid box, somehow your Vagrantfile or the yaml config does not provide the box information, detail the steps you've done and someone will tell you which one is missing — Frederic Henri
Thanks for the response. Can you please let me know where did i go wrong ? Or what steps should i do now or should i do it from the scratch again after removing everything? I followed this tutorial. medium.com/@charlesfreeborneteure/… Only step in this tutorial which i take out from the tutorial is that i download the box manually. — Wasif Iqbal

Frederic Henri Frederic Henri · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-26T09:42:03

Once you have downloaded the box manually, you need to add it to vagrant config, so vagrant knows about the box for later user. run the following command :

$ vagrant box add --box-version <VERSION_DOWNLOADED> laravel/homestead <path to downloaded file>

After this, make sure to go to the folder where homestead has been cloned (do not do that from the .vagrant directory, just go somewhere else, and avoid path with space, windows generally does not like it; C:\homestead will be just fine for a test) and you can run vagrant up from there

Laravel Homestead vagrant up box issue

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