If you change the sites property after provisioning the Homestead box, you should re-run vagrant reload -- provision to update the Nginx configuration on the virtual machine. https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/homestead#introduction The hosts file will redirect requests for your Homestead sites into your Homestead machine. On Mac and Linux, this file is located at / etc / hosts . On Windows, it is located at C : \ Windows \ System32 \ drivers \ etc \ hosts . The lines you add to this file will look like the following: 192.168 .10 .10 homestead . test Make sure the IP address listed is the one set in your Homestead . yaml file. Once you have added the domain to your hosts file and launched the Vagrant box you will be able to access the site via your web browser: http : //homestead.test Launching The Vagrant Box Once you have edited the Homestead . yaml to your liking, run the vagrant up...