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.
