Setup Laravel On Ubuntu

Updated: 2019-02-24

Links: Laravel Composer Ubuntu PHP

Installing Laravel

Install Composer

Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. Download and install Composer.

Download Composer

Install Composer globally.

Install Composer globally instructions

Test Composer.

composer --version

Install zip and unzip.

sudo apt-get install zip unzip

Download the Laravel installer.

composer global require laravel/installer

Add composer's system-wide vendor bin directory to your $PATH.

echo 'export PATH="~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc

You need to start a new ssh session or reload .bashrc

Laravel is now installed and ready.

Setup New Project

Starting A New Project

I want to put my website files in /var/www/html which is currently owned by root, so I'm gonna change the owner to my user and then change it back. Go to the www directory.

sudo chown user
                                html

Go into the html directory and create new Laravel project.


                                laravel new project_name

Go back to the www directory and change html dir owner back to root.

sudo chown root html

Laravel is now installed and ready.

Set Laravel Permissions

Setting Laravel Directory Permissions

Go to your projects directory /var/www/html/your_project

Change the storage and /bootstrap/cache directories group to www-data.

sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache

Change the storage and /bootstrap/cache directories permissions .

sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache

Go to your domain and your website should load.

Configuration

Application Key

Set Application Key.

php artisan key:generate

Cache

Create cache table.

php artisan cache:table Migration created successfully! php artisan migrate Migrating: 2019_02_24_153528_create_cache_table Migrated: 2019_02_24_153528_create_cache_table

Check if memcache is installed:

dd(extension_loaded('memcached'));

Laravel Errors

Setup Laravel Error Pages

Publish laravel error pages.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-errors

Next Setup Laravel Authentication »

For a more detailed explanation: Check out these tutorials.

Laravel Docs Composer Deploy Laravel Application with Nginx on Ubuntu