Setup Linode - Part 10 Laravel

• Part 1 LAMP
• Part 2 Users
• Part 3 Upgrade PHP to 7.3
• Part 4 Apache Enable Mod rewrite
• Part 5 Composer
• Part 6 Virtual Hosts
• Part 7 Let's Encrypt
• Part 8 MySQL
• Part 9 Remote MySQL over SSH
• Part 10 Laravel

The following steps are needed for running Laravel on Linode.

Before you install Laravel, decide where you're going to install it. If you are setting up a site that already has a virtual host seup then simply remove the folder from /var/www

sudo rm -rf foldername

This allows you to create the folder as part of the installation.

Installing Laravel

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

If you get the error:
procopen(): fork failed - Cannot allocate memory

A swap file is needed run this on the root:

sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

cd into the laravel folder and change permissions by running:

sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache