In this tutorial, we will explain how to install and run the latest stable version of the Laravel 6.0 PHP Framework on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Long Term Support) with Apache2 and PHP 7.4 support.
Laravel is a lightweight and flexible open-source PHP framework solution with an MVC (Model-View-Controller) design structure. Laravel certainly focuses on building scalable and flexible web applications with ease. In addition, it has in-built features like caching, authentication, session management, routing, and unit testing. As a result, it becomes the first choice of many PHP developers.
Prerequisites
Above all, An installed instance of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is required with a privileged user for installation.
After that, Update your system sources and existing software packages using the following commands.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
On the other hand, the following components are needed for Laravel 6.0 LTS.
- PHP >= 7.2.0
- BCMath PHP Extension
- Ctype PHP Extension
- JSON PHP Extension
- Mbstring PHP Extension
- OpenSSL PHP Extension
- PDO PHP Extension
- Tokenizer PHP Extension
- XML PHP Extension
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