Installing laravel 5 on Ubuntu 16.04

Step by Step guide to installing and configuring Laravel 5.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 on AWS via composer.

Step 1. Checking server requirements To install Laravel 5.4
In order to install Laravel 5.4 your server must meets the following requirements:

PHP >= 5.6.4
OpenSSL PHP Extension
PDO PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
Tokenizer PHP Extension
XML PHP Extension

Checking PHP version

To check your PHP version Type below command on your Terminal.

php -version

If you php version is less than 5.6.4 , here are the steps to upgrade your PHP version.
Here are Steps To Upgrade PHP version on Ubuntu 16.04

Step 2. Checking composer is installed or not.
If it is not installed Kindly run below commands to install Composer Globally on server.
Installing composer globally on Ubuntu 16.04
Please run below commands to install composer.


  php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
  php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') ==='669656bab3166a7aff8a7506b8cb2d1c292f042046c5a994c43155c0be6190fa0355160742ab2e1c88d40d5be660b410')
  { echo 'Installer verified'; } else{ echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
  php composer-setup.php
  php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

OR


curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

Step 3. Checking Mbstring PHP Extension is enabled or not

Please run below commands to install Mbstring PHP Extension

sudo apt-get install php7.0-mbstring

Step 4. Installing XML PHP Extension

sudo apt-get install php7.0-xml

Restarting apache after installation


sudo service apache2 restart

Step 5. Installing latest laravel Framework. In my case its laravel 5.4.17.

composer create-project laravel/laravel laravelblog

Step 4. Checking installed version of laravel.

php artisan -V

Step 5. Change storage folder permissions

# Group Writable (Group, User Writable)
$ sudo chmod -R gu+w storage

# World-writable (Group, User, Other Writable)
$ sudo chmod -R guo+w storage

You have done

Now access it from the browser to check http://your-domain.com/laravelblog/public/
In my case I have installed laravel in subdirectory of my website. Here is link
http://onlineinterviewquestions.com/frameworks/laravelblog/public/