Laravel Introduction to laravel-5.2 Installation or Setup
Example
Instructions on installing Laravel 5.1 on a Linux/Mac/Unix Machine.
Before initiating the installation, check if the following requirements are met:
- PHP >= 5.5.9
- OpenSSL PHP Extension
- PDO PHP Extension
- Mbstring PHP Extension
- Tokenizer PHP Extension
Let's begin the installation:
- Install composer. Composer Documentation
- Run
composer create-project laravel/laravel <folder-name> "5.1.*" - Ensure that the
storagefolder and thebootstrap/cachefolder are writable. - Open the
.envfile and set the configuration information like database credentials, debug status, application environment, etc. - Run
php artisan serveand point your browser tohttp://localhost:8000. If everything is fine then you should get the page
