The Laravel framework also provides a command-line interface (CLI) known as Artisan. It provides helpful commands to perform operations for your applications. This article will help you to install the Laravel PHP Framework on CentOS 8 systems.
Prerequisites
The newly installed system’s follow initial server setup. Shell access with sudo privileges account.
Step 1 – Installing LAMP Stack
First of all, Laravel required LAMP stack to be running LAMP stack on your CentOS 8 system. The systems that have already run the LAMP stack can skip this step else use the following commands to install it.
Install Apache2
The Apache packages can be directly installed on default repositories. Once you installed the web server, type curl http://localhost, which will display HTML content on your screen.
Install MySQL
Use the following command to install MySQL on your system. For the detailed instructions visit here. Follow the MySQL initial configuration wizard to set a new password.
Install PHP
Laravel required PHP 7.2 or higher version. The official repositories already contains the required version’s of PHP packages. So, we can simply install the PHP by executing the following command:
Step 2 – Installing PHP Composer
Composer is used to creating new Laravel applications or installing dependencies for an existing applications. Run the below commands to download and install PHP composer on your system.
Step 3 – Create Laravel Application
Next, create a Laravel application using the composer package manager. Switch to your projects directory and create a Laravel application using “composer create-project laravel/laravel” followed by application name. The above commands will download the Laravel project files and install all the required dependencies on your CentOS system. Next, set the 32 bit long random number encryption key, which is used by the Illuminate encrypter service.
Step 4 – Access Laravel Application
Run your Laravel application in a development environment using php artisan. After that, I’ll tell you how you should deploy it on Apache. Run the below command from your Laravel application. You can change the host to your LAN IP or localhost to restrict access. Access Laravel application using localhost (for local systems) or server IP address and specified port.
Step 5 – Setup Laravel with Apache
Now add a Virtual Host in your Apache configuration file to access Laravel framework from web browser. To do it create Apache configuration file /etc/httpd/conf.d/laravel.conf and add below code: Restart Apache service and access the Laravel framework using your favorite web browser. Now, set the proper permission for the application files and directories. SELinux enabled systems also run the below command to allow write on storage directory. Finally, access your Laravel application in a web browser.
Conclusion
In this tutorial, you have learned to create a new Laravel application with a composer and run it on a development system. Also deployed laravel on Apache server.
