Laravel is an open source PHP web framework, designed for the faster development of web application. It is based on Symfony framework, follows the model–view–controller architectural pattern. At the time of writing this tutorial, Laravel 7.9 is the latest version available.
Laravel also provides a command-line interface (CLI) known as Artisan. It provides helpful commands to perform operations for your application’s.
This article will help you to install Laravel PHP Framework on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS systems.
Step 1 – Installing LAMP Stack
First of all, you need to setup LAMP stack on your Ubuntu system. Laravel required PHP 7.2.5 or higher version to be installed. Follow below instructions to install all required packages and service for on your system.
Install PHP
sudo apt install zip unzip software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php sudo apt install -y php7.4 php7.4-gd php7.4-mbstring php7.4-xml php-zip
Apache2
sudo apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php7.4
Install MySQL
sudo apt install mysql-server php7.4-mysql
You also need to to MySQL post installation instructions. Use this tutorial to find more details about MySQL installation.
Step 2 – Installing Composer
PHP Composer is used for install required dependencies for the PHP application. Execute the following commands to install and configure Composer on your system.
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer
Step 3 – Download and Install Laravel
The latest Laravel version is available under Github repository. Use the below command to clone the master branch of the Laravel from GitHub repository.
cd /var/www git clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git
Switch to the laravel directory and use the composer to install all dependencies required for the Laravel framework.
cd /var/www/laravel sudo composer install
The dependencies installation may take some time as per your network speed. After successfully installing all dependencies, set the proper permissions on all files.
chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/laravel chmod -R 755 /var/www/laravel chmod -R 777 /var/www/laravel/storage
Step 4 – Create Environment Settings
Next, create the Laravel environment confiugration file. You can do it by renaming the .evn.example file to .env. This will use to setup application environment for the project.
mv .env.example .env
Now generate base64 random number encryption key, which used by the Illuminate encrypter service.
php artisan key:generate Application key set successfully.
Edit the .env configuration file and update the required settings. Also, make sure APP_KEY is properly set as generated in above command.
vi .env APP_NAME=Laravel APP_ENV=local APP_KEY=base64:HFdS7c9rhDp+AeHu7kc2OLBPuxHqq2BQ/1gfFWEpoAk= APP_DEBUG=true APP_URL=http://localhost ...
You can also change the APP_NAME with the name of your application and APP_URL to the URL you need to access your Laravel application.
Step 5 – Create MySQL User and Database
Next, create a MySQL database for your Laravel application. Also create a MySQL user to connect the database from Laravel application. Login to your MySQL server and create MySQL database and user by running following commands.
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CREATE DATABASE laravel; CREATE USER 'laravel'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secret'; GRANT ALL ON laravel.* to 'laravel'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; quit |
Now edit the .env file and update database settings.
DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 DB_PORT=3306 DB_DATABASE=laravel DB_USERNAME=laravel DB_PASSWORD=secret
Step 6 – Apache Configuration
Next, edit Apache default virtual host configuration file (ie: 000-default.conf) and update Document Root to the Laravel public directory as below:
vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
Update the configuration like below:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/laravel/public <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/laravel> AllowOverride All </Directory> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost>
Reload Apache configuration changes by restarting service using below command
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Step 7 – Access Laravel Application
You have successfully configured the Laravel 7 PHP framework on your system. Access Laravel application in your favorite web browser
Let’s start building an awesome application using Laravel 7 PHP Framework. Thanks.