Laravel 5.2 on CentOS 7.2 up and running

1. Pre-built homestead vagrant box
2. Using composer

1. Getting vagrant box ready

1. Create a Vagrantfile within your project directory. I like to keep my naming conventions simple, so for me it is Vagrant/Vagrantfile
2. open your Vagrantfile and include:

    # -*- mode: ruby -*-
    # vi: set ft=ruby :
   
    PROJECT_NAME = "MyLaravel"
    API_VERSION  = "2"
   
    Vagrant.configure(API_VERSION) do |config|
        config.vm.define PROJECT_NAME, primary: true do |config|
            config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
                vb.name = PROJECT_NAME
            end
   
            config.vm.box = "bento/centos-7.2"
        config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.56.6"
            config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 8056
            config.vm.provision "shell", path: "bootstrap.sh"
        end
    end
   

3. Now, you can see that we have included a provision file bootstrap.sh, let’s create bootstrap.sh in your project directory. So it will be Vagrant/bootstrap.sh

2. Install LAMP stack and composer

1. We will install the lamp stack and composer with vagrant provision so that it is simple enough for us to install laravel from there onwards. Open bootstrap.sh and include:

   #!/bin/bash
   
   #title           :bootstrap.sh
   #description     :This script will install laravel on PHP 7
   #author               :Ajay Krishna Teja Kavuri
   #date            :20160718
   #version         :0.1
   #==============================================================================
   
   #Formal update for no reason
   yum -y update
   
   #Setup Yum messages
   rpm -Uvh http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm
   rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
   rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm
   yum -y update
   echo -e "----Added RPM's----\n\n"
   
   # Install apache
   yum -y install httpd httpd-devel httpd-manual httpd-tools
   echo -e "----Installed Apache----\n\n"
   
   # Install MySQL
   yum -y install mysql-connector-java mysql-connector-odbc mysql-devel mysql-lib mysql-server
   echo -e "----Installed MySQL----\n\n"
   
   # Install MySQL mods
   yum -y install mod_auth_kerb mod_auth_mysql mod_authz_ldap mod_evasive mod_perl mod_security mod_ssl mod_wsgi
   echo -e "----Installed Auth Plugins for MySQL----\n\n"
   
   # Install PHP 7
   yum -y install php70w php70w-bcmath php70w-cli php70w-common php70w-gd php70w-ldap php70w-mbstring php70w-mcrypt php70w-mysql php70w-odbc php70w-pdo php70w-pear php70w-pear-Benchmark php70w-pecl-apc php70w-pecl-imagick php70w-pecl-memcache php70w-soap php70w-xml php70w-xmlrpc
   echo -e "----Installed PHP 7----\n\n"
   
   # Start and set apache
   sudo systemctl start httpd
   sudo systemctl enable httpd
   echo -e "----Started Apache----\n\n"
   
   # Install composer
   curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
   sudo chmod +x composer.phar
   mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer
   echo -e "----Installed composer----\n\n"
   

   Note: Feel free to go ahead and change the header of this bash file
2. Now your vagrant environment is ready. Go ahead and do a vagrant up from your project directory. In my case project directory will be Vagrant.

3. Install and configure laravel with composer

1. Run vagarnt ssh to get into your vagrant box
2. Change your directory, I choose vagrant filepath so that I can see changes on my local machine.

   cd /home/vagrant
   

3. Install laravel installer

   composer global require "laravel/installer"
   

4. export the path for using laravel tool set

   export PATH=~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH
   

5. Create a new laravel project

   laravel new MyLaravel
   

6. move your project to apache folder

   sudo mv /home/vagrant/MyLaravel /var/www/html
   

7. Change the permissions for laravel storage and apache

   chmod 775 /var/www/html/MyLaravel/storage
   sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/MyLaravel
   sudo chmod 755 /var/www
   

8. Add VirtualHost to httpd config

   Alias /MyLaravel /var/www/html/MyLaravel/public
   <VirtualHost *:80>
       DocumentRoot /var/www/html/MyLaravel/public
   
       <Directory /var/www/html/MyLaravel>
              AllowOverride All
       </Directory>
   </VirtualHost>
   

9. Restart the apache

   sudo systemctl restart httpd
   

   4. Demo

   Once you open your vagrant host which should be http://192.168.56.6 (if you use the same vagrantfile) you should see something like this:
   

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