Installing Laravel framework

Containers created from our PHP stack come with all the requirements for the Laravel framework preinstalled and properly configured. Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies so it is a matter of running few commands to get a working Laravel installation. First, download the Laravel installer using Composer in your IDE terminal:

composer global require "laravel/installer"

Once installed, the laravel new command will create a fresh Laravel installation in the workspace directory.

cd ~/workspace
laravel new

Now you just need to configure permissions of the storage and the bootstrap/cache directories which should be writable by your web server.

chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache

Public Directory

workspace folder is your Document Root and Laravel's public directory serves as the front controller for all HTTP requests entering your application. If you would like to remove /public from your preview URL, just create a file named .htaccess in your workspace and save the following in it:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>