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• 1 Update your Ubuntu system first

  Warning!  Upgrade Ubuntu system usually takes no longer than 30 mins.  Make sure you don't interrupt once the upgrade is running or else you risk ruining the WSL and will have to reinstall it with IT's help.

  Code Block
  sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

   

  • How to check current version of Ubuntu

    Code Block
    lsb_release -a

• 2 Install PHP7.3 

   

  • Add ondrej/php which has PHP 7.3 package and other required PHP extensions.

    Code Block
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php sudo apt-get update

  • Install PHP 7.3

    Code Block
    sudo apt-get install php7.3

  • • Check php version

      Code Block
      php -v

  • Installing PHP 7.3 Extensions

    Code Block
    sudo apt-get install php7.3-cli php7.3-json php7.3-mysql php7.3-zip php7.3-gd php7.3-mbstring php7.3-curl php7.3-xml php7.3-bcmath php7.3-json

• 3 Install composer globally

  • Install composer (https://getcomposer.org/download/)

    To quickly install Composer in the current directory, run the following script in your terminal. To automate the installation, use the guide on installing Composer programmatically.

    Code Block

    php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '48e3236262b34d30969dca3c37281b3b4bbe3221bda826ac6a9a62d6444cdb0dcd0615698a5cbe587c3f0fe57a54d8f5') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;" php composer-setup.php php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

    This installer script will simply check some php.ini settings, warn you if they are set incorrectly, and then download the latest composer.phar in the current directory. The 4 lines above will, in order:

    • Download the installer to the current directory
    • Verify the installer SHA-384 which you can also cross-check here
    • Run the installer
    • Remove the installer

     

  • Move the composer.phar file into your global path

    Code Block
    sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

  • Check composer version

     

    Code Block
    composer --version

  • Upgrade composer (If needed)

    Code Block
    sudo -H composer self-update

  • Remove composer in order to re-install a newer version (Do this when upgrade composer command fails)

    Code Block
    sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/composer

• 4 Install Laravel globally (https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/installation)

  Code Block
  composer global require laravel/installer

• 5 Switch to a Windows system code folder

  We want to create our code in Windows system, not WSL, so that we can access and edit the code using editor or IDE, and serve the project to localhost and open it on browsers in Windows system.  One good option is the GitHub folder.

  Code Block
  cd /mnt/c/Users/<netID>/Documents/<folder>

   

  • Set up an alias in .bashrc so that you don't have to type the command each time

    Code Block
    alias <name>="cd /mnt/c/Users/<netID>/Documents/<folder>"

• 6 Start your first Laravel project and serve it

  Code Block
  laravel new <project>

  Local Development Server

  If you have PHP installed locally and you would like to use PHP's built-in development server to serve your application, you may use the serve Artisan command. This command will start a development server at http://localhost:8000:

  Code Block
  php artisan serve

   

   

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