How to Install Laravel on AWS Ec2 Linux

Laravel is a great framework for PHP. We use it for a broad range of web applications.

Follow our quick guide to get Laravel set up on your AWS Ec2 Linux instance.

Install Laravel

We’re going to use Git and Composer to do the heavy lifting for us.

If you do not have Git installed on your instance, grab this first:

Check if you have it:: $~ git –version

Install Git:

$~ sudo yum install git

If you do not have Composer installed on your instance, grab this first:

Check if you have it:: $~ sudo composer -V

Install Composer:

$~ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

$~ mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

$~ chmod +x /usr/bin/composer

Grab Laravel from Git:

$~ cd /var/www/html

$~ git clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git

Install Laravel:

It’s advisable that you do not run composer when using root permissions

$~ cd /var/www/html/laravel

$~ composer install

Set Permissions

$~ sudo chown -R apache.apache /var/www/html/laravel

$~ chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/laravel

$~ chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/laravel/storage

Set Laravel Key

$~ sudo cp .env.example .env

$~ sudo php artisan key:generate

Set Routing / Virtual Host

$~ sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

$- i

Paste the following at the end of the file

ServerName laravel.example.com

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/laravel/public

AllowOverride All

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

$- esc :wq

$- service httpd restart