How to install Laravel5 on CentOS and RHEL

Laravel is an open source PHP framework designed for faster development of MVC web applications in PHP. This article will introduce the steps to install Laravel5 on CentOS and Rhel systems.

Step 1: Set up the yum repository

First, you need to add REMI and EPELRPM to the system repository. These repositories have updated packages. Use one of the following commands depending on your operating system version and system architecture.

### On CentOS/RHEL - 7 ###
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/e/epel-release-7-11.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm


### On CentOS/RHEL - 6 ###
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

Step 2: Install Apache, MySQL and PHP

Install Apache

# yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install httpd

Install MySQL

# yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install mysql-server
# service mysqld start
# /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Install PHP

# yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install php php-zip php-mysql php-mcrypt php-xml php-mbstring
# service httpd restart

Step 3: Install Composer

Installing laravel dependencies requires composer. So, use the command below to download and use the command in our system.

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

Step 4: Install Laravel

To download the latest version of Laravel, use the command below to clone Laravel’s home page from Github

# cd /var/www
# git clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git

Navigate to the laravel code directory, and Install all dependencies required by laravel framework using composer.

# cd /var/www/laravel
# composer install

Dependency installation takes some time. After that, set the appropriate permissions on the file.

# chown -R apache.apache /var/www/laravel
# chmod -R 755 /var/www/laravel
# chmod -R 755 /var/www/laravel/storage

SELinux-enabled systems also run the following command to allow writing to the storage directory.

# chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /var/www/laravel/storage

Step 5: Set encryption key

Laravel uses .evn files for environment configuration. Use .evn files to configure all environment variables for your application, such as databases, SMTP, security keys, etc.

# cp .env.example .env

Now sets the 32-bit long random number encryption key used by the lighting encryption service.

# php artisan key:generate
Application key set successfully.

You can view the .env file to find the configured application key.

Step 6: Create Apache Virtual Host

Now add a virtual host in the Apache configuration file to access the Laravel framework from a web browser. To do this, edit the apache configuration file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add the following code at the end of the file

# vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

File: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
       ServerName laravel.example.com
       DocumentRoot /var/www/laravel/public

       <Directory /var/www/laravel>
              AllowOverride All
       </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Restart the Apache service, access the Laravel framework using your favorite web browser, and start developing a web application.

# service httpd restart

The Laravel website can now be accessed in a web browser.

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