Install Development Copy

Setup the Development Environment

• Install and setup a Homestead environment.
• Configure your Homestead environment to point mybb2.dev to /home/vagrant/Code/mybb2/public.
• Add mybb2.dev to your machine's /etc/hosts file.

Install a Development Copy of MyBB 2.0

Downloading Updates

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Installing Essential Packages

apt-get install build-essential

Clone the repository under /home/vagrant/Code/ inside the Homestead environment.

```shell
$ git clone git@github.com:mybb/mybb2.git
```

Give write permissions to the storage/ directory.

```shell
$ chmod -R 777 storage/
```

Install Composer dependencies. shell $ composer install Create your environment file and edit it accordingly. In a default Homestead environment you can leave the copy untouched and everything will work right out of the box.

```shell
$ cp .env.example .env
$ vim .env
```

Publish assets by packages

$ php artisan vendor:publish

Install migrations table and run migrations.

```shell
$ php artisan migrate:install
$ php artisan migrate
```

Add Debug Data (aka Seeds)

$ php artisan db:seed