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Laravel is a MVC framework for PHP. The latest Laravel release is version 5.5 in July 2017. Laravel 5.5 requires PHP 7 and higher. The latest stable release of PHP is 7.1. The following instructions walks you through how to install Laravel 5.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Update

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install Apache

# install apache
sudo apt-get install apache2
# start apache
sudo systemctl start apache2
# enable on startup
sudo systemctl enable apache2

Install PHP 7

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install php7.1 php7.1-xml php7.1-mbstring php7.1-mysql php7.1-json php7.1-curl php7.1-cli php7.1-common php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-gd libapache2-mod-php7.1 php7.1-zip

Install Composer

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

Change Permissions

# add new user to www-data group
sudo useradd -g www-data ubuntu
# add existing user to www-data group
sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu
# change ownership
sudo chown -R ubuntu:www-data /var/www
# change permissions
sudo chmod -R g+rwx /var/www

Install Laravel 5.5 via Composer

composer create-project laravel/laravel /var/www/html/web

Make Storage Writeable

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/web/storage

Set Document Root in Apache

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
# change DocumentRoot to laravel/public
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/laravel/public"
# Save and Exit

Restart Apache

sudo systemctl restart apache2

There you have it. Laravel 5.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Enjoy.

If you find yourself commenting out multiple lines in BASH, there is a simple way of commenting them out using the HERE DOCUMENT feature. Typically you use the hash (#) tag to comment out each line, but that can get tiresome especially if have hundreds of lines. Here’s a better option. Use the HERE DOCUMENT feature in BASH. Anything in between the HERE DOCUMENT will be ignored by BASH and treated as comments.

#<<COMMENT - Remove the # sign to activate the HERE DOCUMENT
echo "1"
echo "3"
echo "4"
#COMMENT - Remove the # sign to activate the HERE DOCUMENT

If you need to reverse them, then just do the following. In this way, you only have to touch 2 lines instead of multiple lines.

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