Quick reminder of steps to setup a Laravel project on Ubuntu/Linux Mint and similar. First install composer: sudo apt install composer Install PHP dependencies: sudo apt install php-cli-prompt php-common php-composer-semver php-composer-spdx-licenses php-fpm php-json-schema php-mysql php-symfony-console php-symfony-filesystem php-symfony-finder php-symfony-process php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-fpm php7.0-gd php7.0-json php7.0-mbstring php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql php7.0-opcache php7.0-readline php7.0-xml php7.0-zip php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql Use composer to create your Laravel project: composer create-project –prefer-dist laravel/laravel myprojectname Install composer.json packages: composer install Generate a key for your new project into the .env file: php artisan key:generate Amend the .env file with database details and anything else you want to customise. You may want to install mysql with sudo apt install mysql-server Auth Scaffolding… Read more »
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Resetting Root Password in Single User Mode
Using Red Hat / CentOS etc one method of resetting the root user password is to boot into single user mode. To do so, interrupt the booting process if necessary so that you see the Grub boot menu: Press the ‘e‘ keyboard button to edit the boot parameters. You will see a menu with the… Read more »
