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Dead simple domain mapping in Laravel Homestead

Michael Dyrynda wrote up a follow up on my homestead tips blog post:

Now that you've setup `dnsmasq`, you can resolve `*.dev` to your Homestead machine easily, but you still need that manual step of either configuring a new domain in your `Homestead.yaml` file or using the `serve`command within the virtual machine itself.

Whilst neither of these methods take a particularly long time to complete, it's still a few seconds of repetition that can be avoided with some tweaking of your default nginx configuration using wildcard hosts.

What we'll be doing, is telling nginx to listen for anything sent to it that isn't explicitly configured and look for the domain name in your (default) /home/vagrant/Code directory.

https://dyrynda.com.au/blog/dead-simple-domain-mapping-in-laravel-homestead

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Fake the PHP version when running Composer

Mr. Composer, Jordi Boggiano, has posted an overview of composer features that have become available in the past year. A very nice one is config.platform.

The `config.platform` option lets you emulate which platform packages you have available on your prod environment. That way even if you have a more recent PHP version or are missing an extension locally for example, composer will always resolve packages assuming that you have the packages you declared installed.
That'll come in handy when you have a local php 7 environment and an older version installed on the server.

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