How to Install Laravel 7 on Fedora 31/30/29

Laravel is an open source PHP framework designed for the faster development of MVC web applications in PHP. This article will help you to install Laravel 7 PHP Framework on Fedora system.

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Step 1 – Install Packages

PHP is required to run Larave application. As a backend database, you can use the MySQL/MariaDB server. Here is a short instruction for the installation of the LAMP stack on Fedora. It’s required to run the Laravel framework on your Fedora system. You can also use this guide for the detailed instructions to setup LAMP environment on Fedora systems.

Install Apache

sudo dnf install httpd

Install MySQL

sudo dnf install mariadb-server
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Install PHP

sudo dnf install php php-zip php-mysqlnd php-mcrypt php-xml php-mbstring

Install Composer

sudo dnf install composer unzip

Step 2 – Install Laravel

To download latest version of Laravel, Use below command to clone master repo of laravel from github.

cd /var/www/
git clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git

Navigate to the Laravel code directory and use the composer to install all dependencies required for the Laravel framework.

cd /var/www/laravel
composer install

Dependency installation will take some time. After that set proper permissions on files.

chown -R username:apache /var/www/laravel
chmod -R 755 /var/www/laravel
chmod -R 755 /var/www/laravel/storage

SELinux enabled systems also run the below command to allow write on storage directory.

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /var/www/laravel/storage

Step 3 – Configure Laravel Environment

Laravel uses .evn file for environment configuration. Use .evn file for configuring all the environment variables for your application like the database, SMTP, security key, etc.

cp .env.example .env

Now set the 32 bit long random number encryption key, which used by the Illuminate encrypter service.

php artisan key:generate

Application key set successfully.

You can view the .env file to find the Application key is configured. In addition, you can also update the MySQL database configuration details in .env file as below.

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=laravel
DB_USERNAME=username
DB_PASSWORD=password

Step 4 – Run Laravel with Artisan

For the development purpose, you can run a Laravel application with Artisan command-line interface. Artisan starts a Laravel development server on your system, which you can access in a web browser.

php artisan serve

Laravel development server started: http://127.0.0.1:8000

The default Artisan starts Laravel on port 8000 for localhost only. To access Laravel over the network specify your system IP with –host option or use IP 0.0.0.0 for public access.

You can also use –port followed by the port number to use another port to serve Larave application. For example, use the below command.

php artisan serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

Laravel development server started: http://0.0.0.0:8000

Step 5 – Setup Laravel with Apache

Now add a Virtual Host in your Apache configuration file to access the Laravel framework in a web browser. To create an Apache configuration file /etc/httpd/conf.d/laravel.conf

sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/laravel.conf

and add the following settings:

<VirtualHost *:80>
       ServerName laravel.tecadmin.net
       DocumentRoot /var/www/laravel/public

       <Directory /var/www/laravel>
              AllowOverride All
       </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Save your file and restart Apache service:

sudo systemctl restart httpd.service

Then access the Laravel website in a web browser with the specified domain name. Make sure the domain/subdomain is correctly pointed to the Laravel server in DNS.

Conclusion

In conclusion, you have configured Larave on your Fedora system. Now, you can follow our tutoirals like: Clear Laravel Cache, Check Laravel Version and Remove index.php from URL in Laravel.