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    Home»PHP Framework»How To Set Up Laravel on Ubuntu 21.04 & 20.10

    How To Set Up Laravel on Ubuntu 21.04 & 20.10

    RahulBy RahulJune 7, 20214 Mins ReadUpdated:July 15, 2021

    Laravel is an open-source PHP web framework, designed for the faster development of web applications. It is based on the Symfony framework, follows the model–view–controller architectural pattern. At the time of writing this tutorial, Laravel 8 is the latest stable version available.

    The Laravel comes with a powerful command-line utility known as Artisan. Which is useful to perform multiple command-line operations.

    This guide will help you to set up a new Laravel application on a Ubuntu Desktop system.

    Step 1 – Set Up LAMP Stack

    First of all, you need to set up the LAMP stack on your Ubuntu system. Laravel required PHP 7.2.5 or higher version to be installed. Follow the below instructions to install all required packages and services 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 to installing 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 the Github repository. Use the below command to clone the master branch of the Laravel from the 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 the above command.

    sudo nano .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 the Laravel application. Login to your MySQL server and create MySQL database and user by running the 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>
    
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            DocumentRoot /var/www/laravel/public
    
            <Directory />
                    Options FollowSymLinks
                    AllowOverride None
            </Directory>
            <Directory /var/www/laravel>
                    AllowOverride All
            </Directory>
    
    </VirtualHost>
    

    Reload Apache configuration changes by restarting the service using the below command

    sudo systemctl restart apache2 
    

    Step 7 – Access Laravel Application

    You have successfully configured the Laravel 8 PHP framework on your system. Access Laravel application in your favorite web browser

    Installing Laravel on Ubuntu

    Let’s start building an awesome application using the latest Laravel PHP Framework.

    Conclusion

    This tutorial explained to you to create a new Laravel application. Also provided you with steps to configure the Laravel application with Apache webserver.

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