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Overview

What is laravel?

Laravel is a free, open source PHP web application framework, designed for the development of model–view–controller (MVC) web applications. Laravel is released under the MIT license, with its source code hosted on GitHub.

What is xampp?

XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

Requirements

  • xampp
  • composer
  • mcrypt

Setup

  • First, Download xampp. Then, you need to setup xampp and change its security settings. Execute,

      chmod 755 xampp-linux-*-installer.run
      sudo ./xampp-linux-*-installer.run
    

    This will open the installer and just click “next” and it will install xampp files in /opt/lampp folder. You should first check if lampp is functioning properly. To test this,

      sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
    

    Let it start everything for you. Now just go to http://localhost and see it is working. We will need to setup security settings as well.

      sudo /opt/lampp/lampp security
    

    Set all the passwords etc, and you are done!

  • Now you need to get composer

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

    If you still get an error, please refer to composer website.

  • Now you need to get important dependencies of laravel - mcrypt.

      sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt php5-json
    

    And now run,

      sudo php5enmod mcrypt
    

    To make sure it is running,

      php -i | grep mcrypt
    

    It will output

      .......
      mcrypt support => enabled
      mcrypt_filter support => enabled
      .......
    
  • Let us create an app - cd into /opt/lampp/htdocs and mkdir laravel-projects. Then finally cd laravel-projects. Now execute below command to create a fresh project.

      sudo composer.phar create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist
    

    It’s gonna take its time. Just wait for it to finish. Once it is done, execute

      sudo chmod -R 775 app/storage
    
  • Now you can modify app/config/app.php to change locale, timezone, debug (to ‘true’ - for viewing errors) etc.

Testing

To test, Just go to http://localhost/larvel-project/laravel/public/ , you will see a page with “You have arrived.” as shown below.

Or you can simply run

    sudo php artisan serve

and visit http://localhost:8000 you will see a page with “You have arrived.” as shown below.

Intro page

That’s it. Now you can start developing awesome apps.

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