Vagrant port forwarding 80 to 8000 with Laravel Homestead

Question

My Problem:

I can only access my sites through port 8000, but not 80, which makes me think it is not redirecting 80 to 8000 as it says it should be.

Answer 1

I see there is an accepted answer, but this alternative may also help someone. If I understand correctly you really dislike the port "8000"!

Have you tried setting a private network?

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
    /*other config stuff here */
    config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.33.22"

This way you can simply use that IP address, or edit you hosts file to map the local domain to that IP.

Take a look at the Vagrant docs:Vagrant Private Networks

BTW, You shouldn't need to shutdown your IIS local server as that is running on a totally different IP range. I have Apache running locally while also accessing the VM server. This allows you to use tools like composer (to pull in laravel) on your local if needed.