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If you, like me, use a development machine provided by the company It department, it will probably be Windows based due security policies enforcement or something on these lines. That's ok, many of the new Windows based machines are really good and sturdy, and now, with the [Windows Subsystem for Linux] it can even work better for development that is not related to C#, .Net or related technologies.

The environment

However, when working with PHP and Laravel, we already have a nice way to run our code, inside the [Vagrant] VM from Laravel itself, [Homestead]. It comes with a bunch of software preinstalled that

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mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-{enabled,available}
cd /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-enabled
ln -s ../sites-available/default.conf
ln -s ../sites-available/default-ssl.conf

File locations:

• nginx.conf to /usr/local/etc/nginx/
• default.conf and default-ssl.conf to /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-available
• homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons/