Laravel Installation

After installing and configuring PHP development environment, there are two ways to install Laravel :

  1. Using Composer create-project
    Open cmd (windows) or terminal (mac and linux) and the type : 
    composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name --prefer-dist
cd your-project-name
php artisan serve
  2. Classic Download
    Download .zip file from github, extract and open cmd or terminal from extracted directory. Run following command : 
    composer install
php artisan serve
  3. Laravel.phar
    This installation method is introduced on version 4.. You have to download Laravel installer PHAR archive. Place it under /usr/local/bin (for mac or linux) and rename it to laravel. Run following command : 
    laravel new
    or 
    laraval new awesomesite
    to create new laravel installation under awesomesite folder

Installation may takes some time to complete. After installation process is done, open http://localhost:8000

PS : php artisan serve is used to run local web server using PHP-CLI without running apache or nginx. It is very useful for development process :)

If you are upgrading from Laravel 4.0 to 4.1, please refer official documentation for detailed information

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