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How to install Laravel 7 and composer in a server that has already installed WordPress on Ubuntu 18.04

Posted on July 26, 2020

Ubuntu 18.04

Dear, friends.

My server is using WordPress on Ubuntu 18.04 with PHP 7.4 ([https://www.digitalocean.com/products/marketplace/])

The WordPress is already installed and runs smoothly, and now i want to learn creating feature on my site using Laravel latest version.

My WordPress is installed in var/www/html folder, and i want to create the Laravel project in var/www/html/my-laravel-project

Please help guide me by recommend tutorial links, so i can learn it step by step, without breaking the WordPress and other related configuration.

Thank you.

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Bobby

July 26, 2020

Hi there @Technosatmedia,

First, I would strongly recommend enabling backups for your Droplet or creating a snapshot. That way if anything goes wrong, you could revert back to a working version.

Then you will need to install composer, you could do that by following the steps here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-composer-on-ubuntu-18-04

Once you have composer installed you can install Laravel with the following commands:

First go to your /var/www/html folder:

cd /var/www/html

Then install Laravel:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel my-laravel-project

After that Laravel will be available at /var/www/html/my-laravel-project.

After that, you can follow Step 4 from this tutorial here on how to configure Laravel:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-laravel-with-lemp-on-ubuntu-18-04#step-4-—-configuring-laravel

Regards, Bobby

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