How to set up a Laravel development environment (tutorial)

Laravel is a popular PHP framework that is widely used for web application development. If you are a PHP developer and want to start using Laravel, then you need to set up the Laravel environment first. This article will introduce you to how to set up a Laravel development environment so that you can quickly start using Laravel.

1. Install PHP

First, you need to install PHP. Laravel requires PHP to be at least version 7.2.5. You can go to PHP's official website (http://php.net/downloads.php) to download the PHP installation package, and then follow the prompts to install it.

After the installation is complete, you can run php -v from the command line to check whether the version of PHP is correct.

2. Install Composer

Composer is a package manager for PHP that allows you to easily install and manage PHP-related packages and libraries. You can go to Composer's official website (https://getcomposer.org/download/) to download the Composer installation package.

After the download is completed, open the command line window, enter the directory of the Composer installation package, and execute the following command:

php composer-setup.php

After the execution is completed, execute the following command:

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

In this way, Composer is installed in the /usr/local/bin directory of the system, and you can use it through the composer command.

3. Install Laravel

After installing Composer, you can start installing the Laravel framework. Execute the following command in the command line window to install Laravel:

composer global require "laravel/installer"

After the execution is completed, you can create a new Laravel project through the laravel new command:

laravel new myproject

This command will Create a Laravel project named myproject in the current directory.

4. Configure the Web server

In order to run the Laravel project, you also need to configure the Web server. Here we take Apache as an example.

First, you need to set the root directory of the web server to the public directory of the Laravel project. In the Apache configuration file, you can configure it like this:

DocumentRoot "/path/to/myproject/public"

Then, add the following content to the Apache configuration file to enable the URL rewriting function:

<Directory "/path/to/myproject/public">
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

After completing the above configuration, restart Apache Just serve.

5. Using Laravel

Now, you have successfully set up the Laravel environment. You can start Laravel's built-in development server with the following command:

php artisan serve

After the execution is completed, you can visit http://localhost:8000 in the browser to view Laravel's welcome page.

Next, you can start using Laravel to develop web applications. Laravel provides many powerful components and tools to help developers quickly build efficient and maintainable web applications.

Summary

This article introduces how to build a Laravel development environment. You need to install PHP, Composer, and use Composer to install Laravel. Next, you need to configure the web server to run the Laravel project. Of course, this is only the basic part of Laravel environment construction. If you want to learn Laravel in depth, you need to learn more.

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