Install Latest Version Of Composer & Laravel In Linux Using Terminal

Install latest version of Laravel using composer in linux OS with the help of terminal [Easy Method]

To create the project in laravel first we need to install the following things in our system:

 - php

 - php-cli

 - php-zip

 - curl

 - composer

 - laravel installer

Let's install laravel from scrach:

Open your terminal

Update your system using command "sudo apt-get update"

Now install the latest version of php in your system using command "sudo apt-get install php"

Now install php-cli in your system using command “sudo apt-get install php-cli”

Now install php-zip in your system using command “sudo apt-get install php-zip"

Now install “curl” in your system using command “sudo apt-get install curl”

Now type “curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php” and hit enter, It'll start downloading the composer and after downloading composer move that composer to "/usr/local/bin/composer" simply using command “sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer”

Now latest version of Composer is installed in your system, To check it simply type “composer” and hit enter

Now lets install laravel in your system, to do that type “composer global require laravel/installer” and hit enter, it’ll start installing the latest version of laravel installer in your system, using the composer that we've downloaded.

Make sure to place Composer's system-wide vendor bin directory in your $PATH so the laravel executable can be located by your system. 

To do that, open the ".bashrc" (hidden file) of your system using “nano .bashrc” & hit enter

Simply add the highlighted text 

(export PATH=”$PATH:$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin”) after “esac” , as shown below.

Now save the file by pressing CTRL+X, to confirm you want to save it type “y” and hit enter

Now reload that ".bashrc" by simply type command “source ~/.bashrc” & hit enter

And the latest version of laravel installer is completely installed in your system, To check it simply type the command "laravel" & hit enter

Now to create your first project in laravel, first choose the directory where you want to create your project & just simlpy type "laravel new projectName" and hit enter, It'll start downloading the project template for you

ITS ALL DONE!

Now you can run your project by typing command "php artisan serve" from the root directory of your project.

And then your project will start running on local host,

But 

in rare case it w'll say error while you try to run "php artisan serve" and falied to run the project and say PHP Warning, PHP fatal error like below:

To fix this error simply type command "composer update --ignore-platform-reqs" and hit enter from the root directory of your project

It'll 100% fix this that error and you can able to run your project using command "php artisan serve"

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