# Laravel Homestead

Vagrant-based virtual machine for local Laravel development, with Nginx, PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL included.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/laravel-homestead/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-28

## Record

### Links

- home: https://laravel.com/docs/homestead
- repository: https://github.com/laravel/homestead
- docs: https://laravel.com/docs/homestead

### Identity

- status: discontinued
- maintainer: Taylor Otwell
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2014
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: dev-tool
- hosting: not applicable
- language: unknown
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: not applicable
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: mysql, postgres
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: local
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: git clone of the Homestead repository onto the host machine

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 15
- latestReleaseDate: 2024-04-29

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 3865
- packagistDownloads: 8405542
- npmWeeklyDownloads: unknown
- contributors: 243
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 1609
- dependentPackages: 83

### Sources

- status: https://laravel.com/docs/homestead (read 2026-10-28)
- status: https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/homestead (read 2026-10-28)
- status: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/laravel/homestead.json (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://laravel.com/docs/homestead (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/homestead (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://laravel.com/docs/homestead (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://github.com/laravel/homestead/blob/main/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/laravel/homestead.json (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/homestead/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/homestead/releases/latest (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://laravel.com/docs/homestead (read 2026-10-28)
- databases: https://laravel.com/docs/homestead (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://laravel.com/docs/homestead (read 2026-10-28)
- runsAs: https://laravel.com/docs/homestead (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/homestead (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://github.com/laravel/homestead/blob/main/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/homestead (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/homestead/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-28)
- packagistDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/homestead.json (read 2026-10-28)
- packagistDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/homestead.json (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/laravel%2Fhomestead (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/laravel%2Fhomestead (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box for local Laravel development. The box includes Nginx, PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL. The Homestead application is a wrapper around Vagrant, and the project is installed by cloning its repository onto the host machine. Taylor Otwell holds the copyright, and the project is released under the MIT license.

## Worth knowing

The project is discontinued. Its documentation calls Homestead a legacy package that is no longer actively maintained, the GitHub repository is archived, and the Packagist package is flagged as abandoned with no replacement named in its metadata. The documentation names Laravel Sail as a modern alternative for local development.

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