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Laravel is a PHP framework used to develop PHP based applications . Laravel is specially designed for easy and faster development of web applications. It supports multi-platform you can simply install and use on your development system. This post will guide you to install Laravel 5 PHP Framework on Debian 9 (Stretch) system.

Server Requirements

The Laravel framework has a few system requirements. You will need to make sure your server meets the following requirements:

PHP >= 7.1.3
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 in Debian

apt-get update

apt install git unzip

Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. So, before using Laravel, make sure you have Composer installed on your machine.

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

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

mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Set permission to execute that composer.

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer

It's best practise to create a database for your Laravel application you might need it at one point. Login to your MySQL server and create MySQL database and user.

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE dbtest;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'dbtest'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'dbtest' WITH GRANT OPTION;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;


move to html directory to install git.

cd /var/www/html

Use git to download the latest version of Laravel from the official git repository.

git clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git

When the git clone finishes, move to the Laravel directory

cd laravel

set the proper permissions on all files.

chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/html/laravel

chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/laravel

chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/laravel/storage

rename the .evn.example file to .env. This is used to setup application environment for the project.

cp .env.example .env

chown -R www-data.www-data .env


use composer to install all dependencies required for Laravel framework.

composer install

generate base64 random number encryption key

php artisan key:generate
Application key set successfully.

Edit the .env configuration file and update the required settings. Also, make sure APP_KEY is properly set as generated in above command

nano .env

# on line 3 make sure you see the app key 

APP_KEY=base64:pPRKLYFCMJawhNYH6CITxHmTYJuOQKRvb6e1/tXAAnA=

 # line 5 add the ip address that you will use to access the server 
APP_URL=http://192.168.0.250

# from line 9 add necessary information to connect to your database

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=dbtest
DB_USERNAME=dbtest
DB_PASSWORD=dbtest


You can create a new Apache configuration file or edit Apache default virtual host configuration file 000-default.conf and update DocumentRoot to Laravel public directory I have opt to edit the existing file.

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerAdmin webmaster@internal.labnet
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/laravel/public
         <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None

        </Directory>

        <Directory /var/www/html/laravel>
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>


restart the apache server for changes to take effect

service apache2 restart

Once the above process is completed, open the browser with IP address to access it.

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