Laravel Getting started with laravel-5.3 Installing Laravel

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Example

Requirements:
You need PHP >= 5.6.4 and Composer installed on your machine. You can check version of both by using command:
For PHP:

php -v

Output like this:

PHP 7.0.9 (cli) (built: Aug 26 2016 06:17:04) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies

For Composer
You can run command on your terminal/CMD:

composer --version

Output like this:

composer version 1.2.1 2016-09-12 11:27:19

Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. So, before using Laravel, make sure you have Composer installed on your machine.

Via Laravel Installer

First, download the Laravel installer using Composer:

composer global require "laravel/installer"

Make sure to place the $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin directory (or the equivalent directory for your OS) in your $PATH so the laravel executable can be located by your system.

Once installed, the laravel new command will create a fresh Laravel installation in the directory you specify. For instance, laravel new blog will create a directory named blog containing a fresh Laravel installation with all of Laravel's dependencies already installed:

laravel new blog

Via Composer Create-Project

Alternatively, you may also install Laravel by issuing the Composer create-project command in your terminal:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Setup

After you are complete with the Laravel installation, you will need to set permissions for the storage and Bootstrap folders.

Note: Setting permissions is one of the most important processes to complete while installing Laravel.

Local Development Server

If you have PHP installed locally and you would like to use PHP's built-in development server to serve your application, you may use the serve Artisan command. This command will start a development server at http://localhost:8000:

php artisan serve

Open your browser request url http://localhost:8000



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