Andrew Kirkpatrick

If you are developing with a virtual machine or container, any modules installed by PIP will either be installed globally or potentially in a virtualenv location outside of the project root. Therefore you will need to tell PyCharm that the imported modules...

If PostgreSQL is set to only listen and allow connections from localhost (127.0.0.1) then you can change the configuration to allow other or all IP addresses to connect.
First we will need to make sure PostgreSQL is listening for connections outside of local networking in the main configuration, which should be located somewhere such as /etc/postgresql/9.x/main/postgresql.conf (where 9.x is whichever version you have...

MySQL 5.6 introduced password expiration, so the password on your Homestead Virtual Machine may expire at some point.
If you log into the MySQL server using the default client and try and execute most commands you will be greeted with
Confusingly you can’t run the ALTER USER statement until you’ve changed your password… so you need to use SET PASSWORD...

When configuring your Homestead VM you may encounter an SSH key issue when booting the Homestead Vagrant VM up
This can be fixed by nesting your mounted directory a level deeper under /home/vagrant/ as that is where the SSH keys of the box itself are stored and mounting your folders directory there can cause issues...