How to Install Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04

Introduction

Laravel is an open-source PHP framework that helps you develop web applications easily and fastly.

It follows the model-view-controller pattern and works on top of the Symfony framework.

Laravel provides an abundant command-line interface. Below is the guide on how to install Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04.

Step 1 – Installing PHP

Laravel requires PHP 7.2.5 or newer to be installed. Run apt command:

$ sudo apt update

Output:

Then run the following command to install PHP:

$ sudo apt install php

Install extension:

$ sudo apt install php7.4-mbstring php7.4-xml php7.4-zip

Step 2 – Installing Composer

You can use curl:

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

Output:

Then you move composer.phar to composer by mv command:

$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Step 3 – Installing Laravel

Run the following command:

$ composer global require laravel/installer

Output:

Step 4 – Open the .bashrc file to edit

$ nano .bashrc

then write:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin"

Let’s save the file.

Then run the following command:

$ source ~/.bashrc

Step 5 – Create a new Laravel app

Syntax:

$ laravel new [name of app]

Here we will create an application named “food”:

$ laravel new food

Output:

Go to application directory:

$ cd food

Then generate an encryption key:

$ php artisan key:generate --ansi

Output:

Then run the following command to get localhost:

$ php artisan serve

Output:

Finally, use localhost to access Laravel.

Conclusion

You’ve already gone through the details of how to install Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04.

Thanks for reading.