Laravel is a flexible opensource PHP framework for web artisans. It can be used as an alternative to CodeIgniter framework. Laravel is designed for ease of use to allow developers create great applications.
If you’re looking for a simple and straightforward PHP framework to design your next application, you’ll find Laravel to be useful. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install Laravel PHP framework on Ubuntu 16.04 | 17.10 | 18.04 with Apache2 and PHP 7.2 support.
To get started with installing Laravel, follow the steps below:
Step 1: Install Apache2
For this tutorial, we’re going to be installing Apache2 web server… to do that, run the commands below…l
sudo apt update sudo apt install apache2
After installing, the commads below can be used to stop, start and enable Apache2 service to always start up with the server boots.
sudo systemctl stop apache2.service sudo systemctl start apache2.service sudo systemctl enable apache2.service
Step 2: Install PHP 7.2 and Related Modules
Laravel is based on PHP.. so you’ll need to install it. To install PHP and related modules run the commands below
sudo apt install php7.2 libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-soap php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php7.2-cli php7.2-zip
After install PHP, run the commands below to open PHP-FPM default file.
sudo nano /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini
Then make the change the following lines below in the file and save.
memory_limit = 256M upload_max_filesize = 64M cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
Step 3: Install Composer to Download Laravel
Run the commands below to install composer package and install.. you must have curl package installed for the commands to work.. if not, just run sudo apt install curl to install it…
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
Change into Laravel directory and run the commands below to download and install Laravel for th e project you want to create… name the project whatever you want… for this post, we’re calling it MyProject..
cd /var/www/html
sudo composer create-project laravel/laravel MyProject --prefer-dist
After running the commands above, a new project directory will be created… Run the commands below to set the correct permissions for that directory..
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/MyProject/ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/MyProject/
Step 5: Configure Apache2
Finally, configure Apahce2 site configuration file for Laravel. This file will control how users access Laravel content. Run the commands below to create a new configuration file called laravel.conf
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/laravel.conf
Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace the highlighted line with your own domain name and directory root location.
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin admin@example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/MyProject/public ServerName example.com <Directory /var/www/html/MyProject/public> Options +FollowSymlinks AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost>
Save the file and exit.
Step 5: Enable the Laravel and Rewrite Module
After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below
sudo a2ensite laravel.conf sudo a2enmod rewrite
Step 6: Restart Apache2
To load all the settings above, restart Apache2 by running the commands below.
sudo systemctl restart apache2.service
Then open your browser and browse to the server domain name. You should see Laravel page.
http://example.com
You should then see Laravel default home screen.. and you’re ready to begin building your apps based on Laravel PHP framework…
That’s it!
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Good day, I tried these steps but somehow I’m unable to properly access my laravel. I have used these additional steps:
1. In step 5 I added ‘sudo composer install’ followed by ‘sudo php artisan key:generate’.
2. I modified config/app.php and added the the key generated above to ‘key’ => env(”).
3. Refreshed the site and it’s working.
‘key’ => env(‘APP_KEY’, ‘key_generated’)
Great article
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How do I find the domain name and directory root location for a local Ubuntu server? Your article says, “Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace the highlighted line with your own domain name and directory root location.”
Nice tutorial for install laravel on ubuntu
Just a small thing that someone might need. You should also not forget to add in /etc/hosts this new site e.g
127.0.0.1 example.com
My install wouldn’t show until I followed Valdimir’s note about adding the url to the /etc/hosts file…. Now it works well.
Great article, btw!
thanks!!!
excellent!! go on that it!
Great article, definitely got me most of the way. One small thing I needed to do was
In Step 5: Enable the Laravel Rewrite Module I had to add
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
The above example not working .here It will show error
Thanx