Laravel New App - Step by Step

Pratical step-by-step how to do a new app in Laravel 5.5 and set permissions correctly on linux

Prerequisites

• Apache
• PHP
• Composer

Initial notes

The project in this repo is just one example of a new app build in Laravel. If you cloned it you shouldn't run the first step.

Step 1 - Create the project

Considering that composer is installed, run

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravel-new-app

Step 2 - Encryption key

In the project dir, generate the laravel encryption key running

php artisan key:generate

Step 3 - Set permissions

Set 755 permission to project (laravel-new-app) dir

chmod -R 755 laravel-new-app

Set "www-data" group owner to "storage" dir and "bootstrap/cache" dir

chown -R :www-data laravel-new-app/storage
chown -R :www-data laravel-new-app/bootstrap/cache

Set 775 permission to "storage" dir and "bootstrap/cache" dir

chmod -R 775 laravel-new-app/storage
chmod -R 775 laravel-new-app/bootstrap/cache

Step 4 - Configure database

On .env file set the database (mysql in this example)

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=mynewapp
DB_USERNAME=usermysql
DB_PASSWORD=passwordmysql

Step 5 - Run migrations

To test database and create the first tables run

php artisan migrate

Note

If any permission error appear while testing the project, repeat step 3.

References

• Laravel docs - Laravel Documentation