Install Laravel 5.5 at Codeanywhere with PHP 7.1 and MySQL 5.7
Update system
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Enter always ‘y’ if there are any overwrite questions. Next, install required software:
sudo apt-get install nano software-properties-common python3-software-properties -y
Remove PHP 5
sudo apt-get purge php5-common -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoremove -y
Install PHP 7.1
sudo apt-get install -y language-pack-en-base
sudo LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php7.1 php7.1-mysql php7.1-mbstring php7.1-zip php7.1-xml -y
Install Composer / Laravel
sudo composer self-update
sudo composer global require "laravel/installer"
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
Create new Laravel app
laravel new myapp
Configure Apache
Change DocumentRoot
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
to
DocumentRoot /home/cabox/workspace/myapp/public
Restart Apache:
sudo apache2ctl restart
Set Permissions
cd ~/workspace/myapp
sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache
Install and Configure MySQL 5.7
Download MySQL
cd ~/workspace/
wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.8.9-1_all.deb
Run
sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.9-1_all.deb
Select MySQL Server 5.7 to install (Press 1, 2 then 4, always followed by ‘enter’). Now, run
sudo apt-get update
Install mysql server
sudo apt-get install mysql-server -y
Create database
mysql -u root
then
CREATE DATABASE myapp;
Configure Laravel
Update .env to
[...]
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=myapp
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=
[...]
Migrate Database
Run migration (from myapp directory) to test, if everything works
composer install
php artisan migrate
Now you should be ready to run Laravel 5.5 on an Ubuntu 14.04 Codeanywhere container with PHP 7.1 and MySQL 5.7.
Install node / yarn
To install a newer version of node, run
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
After that, install yarn
curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
Hints
If you get the error “php: symbol lookup error: php: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_exec”, run this command
sudo apt-get install libpcre3