Easy multiple local projects development with Vagrant and Homestead. Automatic folder mapping and virtual domains ".dev". No touching of nginx and hosts configuration files.

._local-development-automation.md

http://www.sitepoint.com/set-automatic-virtual-hosts-nginx-apache/ http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/homestead http://passingcuriosity.com/2013/dnsmasq-dev-osx/

1. Create folder "Development" and inside it create "Projects" and "Resources"
2. Put contents of "nginx-dev" to "Developments/Resources/nginx-dev"
3. Put contents of "nginx-projects" to "Developments/Resources/nginx-projects"
4. Install laravel/Homstead
5. Copy contents of "Homestead.yaml" to "~/.homestead/Homestead.yaml"
6. Copy contents of "after.sh" to "~/.homestead/after.sh"
7. Configure dnsmasq
8. Optional: configure aliases in ".bash_profile"
9. To create new project, create a folder "projectname.dev" in "Development/Projects". Put all projects files into "Development/Projects/projectname.dev/public".
10. Navigate to "projectname.dev" on your browser.

.bash_profile

# Vagrant Homestead
alias web_start='(cd ~/Development/Homestead; vagrant up)'
alias web_stop='(cd ~/Development/Homestead; vagrant suspend)'
alias web_reload='(cd ~/Development/Homestead; vagrant reload --provision)'
alias web_ssh='(cd ~/Development/Homestead; vagrant ssh)'

after.sh

#!/bin/sh

# If you would like to do some extra provisioning you may
# add any commands you wish to this file and they will
# be run after the Homestead machine is provisioned.


# Add Wildcard server for auto project-server mapping in nginx
ln -fs "/home/vagrant/Resources/nginx-dev" "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/nginx-dev"
ln -fs "/home/vagrant/Resources/nginx-projects" "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/nginx-projects"
service nginx restart
service php5-fpm restart

Homestead.yaml

---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 512
cpus: 1
provider: virtualbox

authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

keys:
    - ~/.ssh/id_rsa

folders:
    - map: ~/Development/Projects
      to: /home/vagrant/Projects
      type: "nfs"
    - map: ~/Development/Resources
      to: /home/vagrant/Resources
      type: "nfs"

sites:
    - map: projects.dev
      to: /home/vagrant/Projects/

databases:
    - homestead

variables:
    - key: 'APP_ENV'
      value: 'local'
    - key: 'APP_DEBUG'
      value: 'true'

nginx-dev

server {
    listen 80;
    # Server name wildcard. Use "project.dev" folder name for project
    server_name ~^(www\.)?(?<sname>.+?)$;
    root "/home/vagrant/Projects/$sname/public";

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/$sname-error.log error;

    sendfile off;

    client_max_body_size 100m;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
        fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
        fastcgi_connect_timeout 300;
        fastcgi_send_timeout 300;
        fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

nginx-projects

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name projects.dev www.projects.dev;
    root "/home/vagrant/Projects";

    charset utf-8;

    access_log off;
    error_log  off;

    location / {
        autoindex on;
    }
}