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Laravel – Installation

For managing dependencies, Laravel uses composer. Make sure you have a Composer installed on your system before you install Laravel. In this chapter, you will see the installation process of Laravel. You will have to follow the steps given below for installing Laravel onto your system −
Step 1 − Visit the following URL and download composer to install it on your system.
Step 2 − After the Composer is installed, check the installation by typing the Composer command in the command prompt as shown in the following screenshot.
Laravel Installation Via Composer
Laravel Installation Via Composer
Step 3 − Create a new directory anywhere in your system for your new Laravel project. After that, move to path where you have created the new directory and type the following command there to install Laravel.
Step 4 − The above command will install Laravel in the current directory. Start the Laravel service by executing the following command.
Step 5 − After executing the above command, you will see a screen as shown below −
Laravel Online Tutorial
Laravel Online Tutorial
Step 6 − Copy the URL underlined in gray in the above screenshot and open that URL in the browser. If you see the following screen, it implies Laravel has been installed successfully.
Laravel Online Tutorial
Laravel Online Tutorial

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