Setup Laravel

This example will use laravel to install Laravel from within the PHP container.

See also

Official Laravel Documentation

Table of Contents

Overview

The following configuration will be used:

Project name	VirtualHost directory	Database	TLD_SUFFIX	Project URL
my-laravel	/shared/httpd/my-laravel	n.a.	loc	http://my-laravel.loc

Walk through

It will be ready in six simple steps:

1. Enter the PHP container
2. Create a new VirtualHost directory
3. Install Laravel
4. Symlink webroot directory
5. Setup DNS record
6. Visit http://my-laravel.loc in your browser

See also

Available tools

1. Enter the PHP container

host> ./shell.sh

See also

Work inside the container

2. Create new vhost directory

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ mkdir my-laravel

3. Install Laravel

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ cd my-laravel
devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-laravel $ laravel new laravel-project

4. Symlink webroot

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-laravel $ ln -s laravel-project/public/ htdocs

5. DNS record

If you do not have Auto-DNS configured, you will need to add the following line to your host operating systems /etc/hosts file (or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc on Windows):

/etc/hosts

 127.0.0.1 my-laravel.loc

See also

For in-depth info about adding DNS records on Linux, Windows or MacOS see: DNS records or Auto-DNS.

6. Open your browser

Open your browser at http://my-laravel.loc