Learn how to install Laravel and Phpmyadmin

1. Laravel

Install Apache2

sudo apt-get install apache2 -y

Install PHP7

• Install sudo apt-get install software-properties-common for add-apt-repository
• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install php7.1 php7.1-mbstring php7.1-xml php7.1-zip php7.1-mysqli zip unzip

Get Composer

• Get curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
• Move Composer sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
• Go to cd /var/www/html
• Create project sudo composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project --prefer-dist

Set name and group

sudo chown cosmin:www-data your-project/ -R

Set permissions

sudo chmod 775 -R your-project/storage/

Enable site

• Go to cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
• Create a new file sudo vim your-project.conf
• Copy this in your-project.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName yourproject.local

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/your-project/public

    <Directory /var/www/html/your-project>
        AllowOverride All
        Require local
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

• Disable default site sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
• Enable your site sudo a2ensite your-project.conf
• Set mode sudo a2enmod rewrite
• Reload and restart apache sudo service apache2 reload and sudo service apache2 restart

Edit hosts

• Edit file sudo vim /etc/hosts
• Add this line 127.0.0.1 your-project.local

Go to

http://your-project.local/

Problems

• If you are using composer install and receive this kind of errors: the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system. then use for example apt-cache search php7.1-mbstring to search for the extension and then install it using sudo apt-get install php7.1-mbstring.

2. Phpmyadmin

• Install mysql-server sudo apt-get install mysql-server
• Install phpmyadmin sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-gettext

Problems

• If phpmyadmin was installed with success but when you go on http://localhost/phpmyadmin you receive a not found message, then do this:
  • Open file sudo vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
  • Add this line somewhere: Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
  • Restart apache sudo service apache2 restart

All tested on elementaryOS 0.4.1 Loki