Installing Laravel - Ubuntu 22.04 | MySql | Apache | PHP (2023)

At this writingUbuntu LTS 22.04in the editionLaravelWe will talk about installing the library and publishing the sample site.

If you need to install Laravel, you need to know what Laravel is, but let's start with a brief description.

Laravel:It is a completely open source web library that runs on PHP. Among its prominent features are security and facilitating the work of software developers.

LaravelIt is a PHP framework that has been offered to programmers and system developers with its easy, flexible structure and speed in the web application development life cycle with its own features.

There are structures in Laravel that we can easily perform functions related to session management, cache management and user authorization mechanisms. You must have guessed that many such mechanisms are built according to a specific architecture. Here also the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture in Laravel can be mentioned. Again, an open source library, in Java technologies in the 90s, in the Microsoft .Net platform in the 2000s, and in the MVC design model, we often hear about design patterns in general.Model: contains the design of the data on which the application runs. The design here is not a visual interface, but a database, etc. represents the plan.Controller: It is the model layer where the data resides and the layer that transports the functions performed by the user through the interfaces, receives and transmits the information and performs all the functions that come from the user.ViewOn the other hand, as we can guess, GUIs, template, table, button etc. which the user can see now. is the layer that contains all HTML objects.

Another thing I benefit from knowing before proceeding with the installation is the Composer Package Manager. Composer, which is one of the components we will install on our ubuntu server during installation. It will provide package management used in functions with PHP. In short, we can say that it is a solution to gather and facilitate the management of all the packages that we might use in our Laravel project.

Maybe we can look at the structure of Laravel, how it works, its history or different aspects from other libraries in a different article, but in this article, let's go into practice without going further into the theoretical knowledge.

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• Server version used: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Web Server: Apache
• PHP version: Stable latest version
• Database: Mysql Community
• Laravel Package Manager : Composer
• Installing Laravel with Composer

Install Apache

First of all, to use our Laravel library, we need to install a web server on our server. I prefer Apache and after updating my server I install Apache with the command below.

root@laravel-server:# apt-get update && upgrade -y

root@laravel-server:# sudo apt install apache2

After the installation is complete, I check the status with the following command to see that the apache installation completed successfully.

root@laravel-server:# systemctl status apache2

PICTURE 1

After successfully installing Apache, if the firewall is going to be actively used on the server, we will need to add apache as a uwf rule. We add ufw the necessary permissions for apache as follows.

root@laravel-server:# ufw enable "Apache Full"

If ufw is disabled, you can skip the above command.

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If there is no problem with the Apache installation, the default Apache page should be displayed when the server IP address is accessed from a browser on the server or on the same network. Since I tested the installation via the virtual machine on my desktop, I won't bother accessing through the browser and checking if the default Ubuntu page comes with Curl from the terminal. After I see the HTML codes coming, I see that the Apache installation is successful, I continue.

root@☺laravel-server:# curl 10.0.2.15

PHP installation

After installing Apache, we will install PHP and necessary components with the command below.

root@laravel-server:# sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mbstring php-xmlrpc php-soap php-gd php-xml php-cli php-zip php-bcmath php-tokenizer php-pearson

We can check the version with the php -v command in the terminal to see if the installation is OK. If you see the php version as in the picture, no problem. Of course, there are many methods to confirm if the installation is smooth, but in some critical scenarios, it may be your choice to check if the php-related files are formed from the files in /etc/apache2/modules-available.

root@laravel-server:# php -v

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Another common method we can do to make sure that PHP runs smoothly on our server and that the plugins that come with PHP install without problems is to create a phpinfo file in Apache's default directory (/var/www/html/) and call this file from the browser and check it. First, let's go to the relevant directory. Next, let's create the phpinfo.php file and insert the php code in which we can see the info information.

root@laravel-server:# cd /var/www/html/

root@laravel-server:# αγγίξτε phpinfo.php

root@laravel-server:# sudo vi phpinfo.php

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In the editor we opened with vi, we enter the editing mode with the letter i. After writing the above phpinfo code, let's close it with +wq and restart our apache server.

root@laravel-server:# systemctl restart apache2

When we go to the server ip address/phpinfo.php from the browser, we can view the info page with information about PHP and its components.

NOTE: Since the risk is considered in the collection phase of the cybersecurity vulnerability analysis, delete the phpinfo.php file from the server after it is completed.

Install MYSQL

We installed Apache and then PHP on our server. As you are used to from the classic LAMP installation, MYSQL Server is next. We can install mysql with below command.

root@laravel-server:# apt-get install mysql-server

Ubuntu 20.04 doesn't ask us to create separate username and password in mysql installation in new versions like 22.04. It does not ask us for this information during installation. We will be able to access mysql with root user and server password. However, we will also create a separate user for mysql after installation.

After we have finished installing Mysql, let's check the status to see if it has been installed successfully.

root@laravel-server:# systemctl status mysql

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Now let's go to the mysql shell and create a new user, we will use this user in the env file in laravel, so let's not continue with the root user. Let's use the following command to open the user to localhost access. We can continue with the root information when logging into mysql.

root@laravel-server:# mysql -u root -p

mysql> CREATE USER 'dbuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'dbuser'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION.

mysql> PRIVILEGE FLUSH.

Let's not forget that we have to put a question mark (?) at the end of every command while performing operations in MySql Shell.

Considering that the same user can access mysql remotely with the localhost access command above, let's create a remote user now.

mysql> CREATE USER 'dbuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'passcode';

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'dbuser'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION.

mysql> PRIVILEGE FLUSH.

After this stage, we made our mysql user accessible both internally and externally. These users are written in the user table in mysql database, now let's run the following command to see our users.

mysql> show databases.

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To continue using the mysql database:

mysql> use mysql.

To view the tables in the mysql database:

mysql> show tables.

The classic opt-in question to engage our users:

mysql> select user, host from user;

FIGURE-7

Exit MySql Shell screen. We can go with After doing the basic exercises for MySql, we can now proceed to install Composer.

Composer installation

root@laravel-server:# curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

The above command will install the composer component manager on our server. The following command is required to run composer from anywhere in ubuntu.

root@laravel-server:# mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Let's give the necessary permissions that allow access from anywhere on the server.

root@laravel-server:# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer

Install Laravel

We can now complete the Laravel installation.

root@laravel-server:# composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel Το FirstLaravelProject μου

With the above command, we create a Laravel project environment named My FirstLaravelProject. This process may take some time.

Now we can specify our IP and Port with the following command to see the default Laravel screen, but that won't add anything to us for now. The default Laravel screen will call "My First LaravelProject". However, we aim to complete the installation and publish a real application in Laravel. So after this section it includes functions like publish, disable default apache configuration file, enable laravel configuration file.

Now let's go to the directory named "My FirstLaravelProject" and see the default page by assigning ip port.

Note: With pwd we can see which directory we are in.

root@laravel-server:# cd My FirstLaravelProject

root@laravel-server:# php artisan serve --host=10.0.2.15 --port=8000

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After viewing the default (blank) Laravel page from our browser, we can now proceed to publish a real project with Laravel. For this, first, let's get the project file we created above to the directory where the apache web server is running.

root@laravel-server:# mv My FirstLaravelProject /var/www/html/

Next, let's give the necessary permissions to this folder to run smoothly.

root@laravel-server:# chgrp -R www-data /var/www/html/My FirstLaravelProject/

root@laravel-server:# chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/My FirstLaravelProject/storage

Just like when managing classic Apache or Nginx, when a new website is included or if it is necessary to create a virtual host in the first installation, we need to create a virtual host configuration file for Laravel.

Let's open the config file we will create with the vi editor, enter the following virtual host configuration, save and exit. You can add the same for 443 SSL. This is exactly the same with Apache and Nginx. The SSL file path should also not be forgotten.

root@laravel-server:# cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

root@laravel-server:# vi laravel_virtual.conf

ServerName domain.com ServerAdmin web@domain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/My FirstLaravelProje/public AllowOverride All ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log συνδυασμένο

We now have a configuration file that will allow Laravel to respond via Apache, but since Apache is still reading the default (000-default.conf) virtual file, we need to disable it as I mentioned earlier and tell it to read the above file configuration.

root@laravel-server:# a2dissite 000-default.conf

Let's activate the new file.

root@laravel-server:# a2ensite laravel_virtual

Now let's restart the Apache rewrite module and then restart apache2 for all these changes to take effect.

root@laravel-server:# a2enmod rewrite

root@laravel-server:# systemctl restart apache2

Yes, if you have made it this far without making mistakes and keeping logic in your head, it means you have published your first laravel project. Now, since Apache will read the file that laravel points to as the virtual host file, any laravel project located in the DocumentRoot and Directory field on the virtual host will be able to run. That is, we gave access to port 8000 to see the Default Laravel screen in the previous parts, it's not necessary, it's like publishing a site in classic apache or nginx.

As long as the index.php file in My First LaravelProject sees VirtualHost as DocumentRoot and the config in VirtualHost sees LaravelProject as Directory, it will work fine. Database functions and mail functions etc. In order for the add-ons to run smoothly, the env file in My First LaravelProject should be arranged according to you. This article does not cover the database creation and env file editing phase.

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