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Aaron Kili Last Updated: August 24, 2020 Laravel, Ubuntu Leave a comment

Laravel is the most popular, free, and open-source PHP framework in the world, known
for its expressive and elegant syntax. Laravel is accessible, powerful, and offers some
of the best web development tools required for large, robust, and modern applications.

In this article, you will learn how to install the Laravel PHP Framework on Ubuntu
20.04 server running on the Nginx web server.

Prerequisites

How To Install LEMP Stack with PhpMyAdmin in Ubuntu 20.04

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Step 1: Installing Required PHP Modules

After setting up the LEMP stack on your Ubuntu 20.04 server as described in the guide
in the link above, you need to install additional PHP extensions required by Laravel as
follows:

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt php-common php-json php-mbstring php-zip php-xml php

Install PHP Modules in Ubuntu

Step 2: Creating a Database for Laravel 

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Next, you need to create a MySQL database for your Laravel application. So, log into
your mysql shell and create the database as follows.

$ sudo mysql
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE laraveldb;
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL ON laraveldb.* to 'webmaster'@'loca
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
MariaDB [(none)]> quit

Create Database for Laravel

Step 3: Installing Composer in Ubuntu 20.04

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Laravel utilizes the composer (a dependency manager for PHP) to manage its
dependencies. Therefore, before using Laravel, ensure you have Composer installed on
your system as shown.

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer

Install Composer in Ubuntu

Step 4: Installing Laravel in Ubuntu 20.04

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After installing the composer, use it to install the Laravel les. Move into your
/var/www/html directory where web les are stored, then install Laravel using the
composer as shown. Remember to replace example.com with the name of the
directory where the Laravel les will be stored.

$ cd /var/www/html
$ composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel example

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Install Laravel in Ubuntu

Note that while con guring NGINX to serve Laravel as described below, the
absolute path (or root path) for your site in NGINX con guration le will be
/var/www/html/example.com/publics .

Step 5: Con guring Laravel in Ubuntu 20.04

To list the contents of the new Laravel installation, run the following ls command. You
will notice that a .env le has been automatically created, which in the past, would
have to be manually created.

$ ls -la /var/www/html/example.com/
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List Laravel Files

Next, set the appropriate permissions on the Laravel directory as follows.

$ sudo chown -R :www-data /var/www/html/example.com/storage/

$ sudo chown -R :www-data /var/www/html/example.com/bootstrap/c
$ sudo chmod -R 0777 /var/www/html/example.com/storage/
$ sudo chmod -R 0775 /var/www/html/example.com/bootstrap/cache/

Next, Laravel uses an application key to secure user sessions and other encrypted
data. The default .env contains a default application key but you need to generate
a new one for your laravel deployment for security purposes.
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$ sudo php artisan key:generate

The generated key will be appended in the .env le as the value of the APP_KEY .
You can view the appended key using grep command.

$ grep -i APP_Key /var/www/html/example.com/.env

View Laraval Key

You also need to con gure the Laravel database connection details in .env as
shown in the following screenshot.

$ sudo nano /var/www/html/example.com/.env

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Laravel Database Settings

Step 6: Con guring NGINX to Serve Laravel

Application
For NGINX to serve your new application, you need to create a server block for it
within the NGINX con guration, under the /etc/nginx/sites-available/
directory.
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$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf

In the con guration below, update the root directive to the Laravel application’s public
directory and make sure to replace www.example.com with the domain name of your
website as shown.

Also, set the fastcgi_pass directive should point to the medium PHP-FPM is
listening on for requests (for example fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-
fpm.sock ):

server{
server_name www.example.com;
root /var/www/html/example.com/public;
index index.php;

charset utf-8;
gzip on;
gzip_types text/css application/javascript text/javascr
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

location ~ \.php {
include fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}

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Save the le and then enable the Laravel site con guration by creating a link from
/etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf to the /etc/nginx/sites-
enabled/ directory. Besides, remove the default server block con guration.

$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf /etc/n

$ sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Next, check if the NGINX con guration syntax is correct by running the following
command before restarting the service.

$ sudo nginx -t
$ sudo systemctl restart nginx

Step 7: Accessing Laravel Application from a Web

Browser
At this stage, you need to test if your Laravel deployment is working ne and whether
it can be accessed from a browser. To use the dummy domain, example.com , let’s
use the /etc/hosts le on your local computer to create local DNS.

Run the following commands to get the IP address of the Laravel server and add it to
the /etc/hosts le (replace the value according to your settings).
$ ip ad
$ echo “192.168.56.11 example.com” | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

Now open a web browser on the local computer and use the following address to
navigate.

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Laravel Web Page

Now that you have Laravel installed, you can start building your web application or
site. For more information, see the Laravel documentation.

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