How to Install Laravel in Ubuntu?

In this post, i will show you how to install laravel in ubuntu using composer. you can easily install laravel in ubuntu 16.04, ubuntu 18.04 and ubuntu 19.04 version. we can install laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, laravel 9, laravel 10 and laravel 11 using composer command.

I will give you step by step instruction of how to install laravel in ubuntu os. so you have to just follow bellow step to installing laravel in ubuntu.

First you can see basic information of what is laravel let's see:

What is Laravel?

Laravel is a free open source PHP framework based on the MVC pattern. It's creatd by Taylor Otwell. Laravel provides expressive and elegant syntax that helps in creating a wonderful web application easily and quickly.

You can follow bellow step to install laravel in ubuntu:

Install Composer:

First step, we need to install composer. we must have to install composer in ubuntu system. you can install composer in your ubuntu system by using following command:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
  
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
  
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer

Laravel Requirements:

You must have some basic requirement of your ubuntu system. so you can see bellow basic requirement as listed bellow:

PHP >= 7.2.0
BCMath PHP Extension
Ctype PHP Extension
JSON PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
OpenSSL PHP Extension
PDO PHP Extension
Tokenizer PHP Extension
XML PHP Extension

Install Laravel:

Now you can run bellow command to install laravel project in your ubuntu system. so let's run bellow command:

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

You can see bellow screen shot of your terminal:

Now it's install completed.

But if you have any permission issue then you can give permission to your storage folder as like bellow:

sudo chmod  -R 777 storage
  
sudo chmod  -R 777 bootstrap

Now we are ready to run project using serve command:

php artisan serve

Now you can open url as bellow:

http://localhost:8000

You can see layout as bellow:

I hope it can help you...