Before setting up the Laravel on Ubuntu, lets install some prerequisites-
sudo apt install -y git curl wget zip unzip
Install Apache
Install apache and check the status if it's running properly-
sudo apt install apache2
sudo systemctl status apache2
You can check if you have installed apache properly by opening this address in your browser, which would open a default apache2 page-
http://localhost
Now enable the mod_rewrite in apache2-
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Install MySQL
Run the following command to install MySQL-
sudo apt install mysql-server
Then run this is secure your mysql installation-
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Now answer the questions-
Remove anonymous users? y
Disallow root login remotely? y
Remove test database and access to it? y
Reload privilege tables now? y
Install PHP
Install following packages-
sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql
sudo apt install php7.2-common php7.2-cli php7.2-gd php7.2-mysql php7.2-curl php7.2-intl php7.2-mbstring php7.2-bcmath php7.2-imap php7.2-xml php7.2-zip
Now check if the PHP is installed properly by creating a new file-
sudo nano /var/www/html/info.php
Put the following content in the above file-
<?php
phpinfo();
Now open the following URL in your browser and you would see a lot of PHP related details-
http://localhost/info.php
Now delete the info.php as it is not needed anymore.
Install Composer
It's a dependency manager for PHP. You can install composer by running these-
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer
composer --version
Install Laravel
Go to the directory where you would like to install Laravel and then run the following-
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel my_laravel_app
cd my_laravel_app
Now you can start the inbuilt server-
php artisan serve
You can verify it here-
http://127.0.0.1:8000
Note: Check out my last post if you want to use a virtual host instead of the in-built server.