How to Install Laravel Framework on Fedora

Laravel is an open-source PHP web framework with expressive and elegant syntax. It is robust, easy to understand, and follows a model-view-controller design pattern. Laravel provides a set of tools and resources to build modern PHP applications. If you are looking for an open-source framework to create extensible PHP-based websites and web applications at scale, then Laravel is the best option for you.

In this post, we will show you how to install Laravel on Fedora Linux.

Step 1 – Install LEMP Server

First, install the Nginx and MariaDB server using the following command.

dnf install nginx mariadb-server 

Next, add the PHP Remi repository with the following command.

dnf install -y http://rpms.remirepo.net/fedora/remi-release-34.rpm
dnf module install php:remi-8.1

Then, install PHP with additional PHP extensions using the following command.

dnf install php php-cli php-common php-fpm php-spl php-hash php-ctype php-json php-mbstring  php-gd php-curl php-mysqli php-xml php-gmp php-xmlrpc php-bcmath php-soap php-ldap unzip -y

Once all the packages are installed, start and enable Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP-FPM services.

systemctl start php-fpm nginx mariadb
systemctl enable php-fpm nginx mariadb

Next, edit the PHP-FPM configuration file.

nano /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

Change the following lines.

listen.owner = nginx
listen.group = nginx

Then, edit the PHP configuration file.

nano /etc/php.ini

Change the following values.

date.timezone = UTC
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

Save and close the file, then restart the PHP-FPM service to reload the changes.

systemctl restart php-fpm

Step 2 – Install Laravel

Before starting, you will need to install PHP Composer on your server. You can install it with the following command.

wget https://getcomposer.org/installer -O composer-installer.php
php composer-installer.php --filename=composer --install-dir=/usr/local/bin

Next, change the directory to the Apache root and create a Laravel project with the following command.

cd /var/www/html
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravelsite

Once the Laravel is installed, you will see the following output.

> @php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-assets --ansi --force

   INFO  No publishable resources for tag [laravel-assets].  

No security vulnerability advisories found
> @php artisan key:generate --ansi

   INFO  Application key set successfully.  

Next, set proper permissions and ownership to the Laravel directory.

chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/html/laravelsite/storage/
chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/html/laravelsite/bootstrap/cache/
chmod -R 0777 /var/www/html/laravelsite/storage/
chmod -R 0775 /var/www/html/laravelsite/bootstrap/cache/

Step 3 – Configure Nginx for Laravel

Next, create an Nginx virtual host configuration file to host Laravel on the Internet.

nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/laravel.conf

Add the following lines:

server {
       listen 80;
       server_name laravel.yourdomain.com;
       root        /var/www/html/laravelsite/public;
       index       index.php;
       charset utf-8;
       gzip on;
	gzip_types text/css application/javascript text/javascript application/x-javascript  image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon;
        location / {
        	try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
        }

        location ~ \.php {
                include fastcgi.conf;
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
        }
        location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
        }
}

Save and close the file, then edit the Nginx main configuration file.

nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Add the following lines after the line http {:

server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;

Save the file, then verify the Nginx configuration for any syntax error.

nginx -t

You should get the following output:

nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

Finally, restart the Nginx and PHP-FPM services to apply the changes.

systemctl restart php-fpm
systemctl restart nginx

Step 4 – Access Laravel Site

Now, Laravel is installed with Nginx on your server. You can now access it using the URL http://laravel.yourdomain.com. You will see the Laravel page on the following screen.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed the Laravel framework on Fedora Linux. You can now start developing your PHP-based web application using the Laravel framework. You can now deploy the Laravel application on dedicated server hosting from Atlantic.Net!