Laravel Homestead Alternatives

Laravel Homestead is described as 'Official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, or any other server software on your local machine' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Laravel Homestead for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and PHP apps. The best Laravel Homestead alternative is XAMPP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Laravel Homestead are WampServer, MAMP, Studio by WordPress and ServBay.

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Laravel Homestead alternatives page was last updated Sep 14, 2024
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  1. Laravel Valet icon

    Laravel Valet

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    Valet is a Laravel development environment for Mac minimalists. No Vagrant, no hosts file. You can even share your sites publicly using local tunnels. Yeah, we like it too.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Laravel

    Laravel Valet Features

    1.  Based on Laravel

    Laravel Valet VS Laravel Homestead

     
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    Devilbox

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    The devilbox is a highly-configurable, Docker based alternative to XAMPP.

    31 Devilbox alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
    Devilbox screenshot 1

    Devilbox Features

    1.  LAMP
    2.  Dockerized

    Devilbox VS Laravel Homestead

     
  4. Fenix Web Server icon

    Fenix Web Server

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    Fenix is a desktop web server for developers. A simple and visual static web server with collaboration features.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Fenix Web Server screenshot 1

    Fenix Web Server Features

    1.  Graphical User Interface

    Fenix Web Server VS Laravel Homestead

     
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    Web stack offering Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, and latest PHP versions with Softaculous auto-installer. Supports app installs and PHP switching for versatile scenarios, perfect for development.

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    Laravel Herd

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    Herd is a blazing fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment for macOS. It provides everything that you need to get started with Laravel development. It ships with PHP, nginx, dnsmasq and Node.js.

    50 Laravel Herd alternatives

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    Laravel Herd screenshot 1

    Laravel Herd Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Xdebug
    4.  Nginx
    5.  Based on Laravel
    6.  Sits in the MenuBar

    Laravel Herd VS Laravel Homestead

     
  7. Lando icon

    Lando

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    Lando is a free, open source, cross-platform, local development environment and DevOps tool built on Docker container technology and developed by Tandem.

    21 Lando alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Lando screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Command line interface
    4. Docker icon  Support for Docker
    5.  LAMP
    6.  Nginx
    7.  PhpMyAdmin

    Lando VS Laravel Homestead

     
  8. Open Server Panel icon

    Open Server Panel

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    Open Server Panel is a powerful alternative to WAMP stacks like Xampp, Wampserver, Herd, EasyPHP, Vertrigo, and similar solutions. This application runs on the Windows operating system, supports Apache and Nginx as web servers, and provides the ability to run various versions of...

    31 Open Server Panel alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Open Server Panel screenshot 1

    Open Server Panel Features

    1.  Portable

    Open Server Panel VS Laravel Homestead

     
  10. wmWebStack icon

    wmWebStack

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    wmWebStack is a desktop application that offers a complete local server environment for web development on Windows. It includes Apache, MySQL, and PHP, bundled together for easy management. With just one click, you can publish your local web projects to the public internet.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    WmWebStack GUI interface for Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Command line interface
    3.  No Tracking
    4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Database Server
    7.  Local server

    wmWebStack VS Laravel Homestead

     
  11. BAMP icon

    BAMP

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    BAMP is a small macOS utility to manage your local server based on Apache + MongoDB + PHP using the Homebrew toolkit.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    BAMP screenshot 1

    BAMP Features

    1.  MongoDB
    2.  Homebrew
    3.  Graphical User Interface

    BAMP VS Laravel Homestead

     
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    USBWebserver

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    USBWebserver is a bundled package of Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin Mini Relay and software that allows a Web server from a USB stick to run.

    34 USBWebserver alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • NL flagNetherlands
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    USBWebserver screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The program is no longer updated. Last version, 8.6, released in September 2013, can be still downloaded from Mediafire.

    USBWebserver Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  PhpMyAdmin

    USBWebserver VS Laravel Homestead

     

    • USBWebserver is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Laravel Homestead.

    • USBWebserver is Free and ProprietaryLaravel Homestead is Free and Open Source
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    WnMp

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    Windows+Nginx+MariaDB+PHP

    WnMp can serve as an up to date LAMP(Linux,Apache,MySQL,PHP) like server with more focus on Current technologies and also a great clean training Environment for Web Development and Maybe in the future it can be picked and some person develop a Web 2.0.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    WnMp screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The last update is from January 2018.

    WnMp Features

    1.  PhpMyAdmin
    2.  LAMP
    3. MariaDB icon  Support for MariaDB
    4.  Nginx

    WnMp VS Laravel Homestead

     
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    Denwer

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    Denwer is a collection of often-used web-servers for web-programmers. It is used to debug web-sites under Win32. Denwer includes: friendly installer; Apache; PHP; MySQL; Perl; virtual host management system; phpMyAdmin; sendmail stub; start/stop manager.

    39 Denwer alternatives

    License model

    • Free Personal • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    Denwer screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The program is no longer updated and the website is full of spam articles. Last version, released in November 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.

    Denwer Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  PhpMyAdmin

    Denwer VS Laravel Homestead

     
  15. InstantWP icon

    InstantWP

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    InstantWP is a complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment. It will turn almost any Windows or macOS machine into a WordPress development server. It will even run from a USB key.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • PHP
    • Wordpress
    InstantWP screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    No release since 2018. The developer doesn't seem to answer bug reports and issues on GitHub anymore, and the used port (10080) is now blocked by default on modern browsers (see https://github.com/webtoolsgroup/InstantWP/issues/103).

    InstantWP Features

    1.  LAMP

    InstantWP VS Laravel Homestead

     
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