Install And Setup Laravel Development Environment On OpenSuse

Written by Anand Singh on the 28th Sep 2021

Exported on 28-Sep-2021 12:18:53

Install Laravel Development Environment On OpenSuse Server With AttuneOps

This Blueprint Installs LEMP Stack Components On A OpenSuse Server

Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller architectural pattern and based on Symfony.

Laravel makes it easy to develop production ready websites and backend APIs with its power packed development utilities. Using Laravel saves a lot of time and cost as it brings along the basic requirements of any backend service such as Authentication, Notifications, Models, Views, Controllers, Middle-wares, etc.

Pre-Blueprint Attune setup
  1. On the Inputs tab, create a Linux node for the host you wish to install the stack on.
  2. On the Inputs tab, create Linux credentials to connect to the host you wish to install the stack on.
Steps Involved
  • Install and configure PHP
  • Install composer - PHP package management system
  • Clone Laravel project
  • Install MySQL 8 database.
  • Configure and launch Laravel development server

Parameters

Name Type Script Reference Default Value Comment
Linux Node Linux / Unix Server linuxNode
Linux User Linux OS Credential linuxUser

1 - Install PHP and Required Plugins

Install PHP and required plugins

The connection details have changed from the last step.

Login as user on node

Connect via SSH 
ssh user@hostname
This is a Bash Script make sure you run it with bash -l from a terminal session 
# Update zypper repositories
sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper up

# Install php and required extensions
sudo zypper install -y php7 php7-mbstring php7-dom php7-xmlwriter php7-openssl php7-json php7-phar php7-fileinfo php7-tokenizer

2 - Install Composer Cli

Downloads and installs composer dependency manager

Login as user on node

Connect via SSH 
ssh user@hostname
This is a Bash Script make sure you run it with bash -l from a terminal session 
# Download composer installer
curl -o composer-setup.php https://getcomposer.org/installer

# Install composer
sudo php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

3 - Install MySQL Server

Installs and configures MySQL (MariaDB) for OpenSuse

Login as user on node

Connect via SSH 
ssh user@hostname
This is a Bash Script make sure you run it with bash -l from a terminal session 
# Install MariaDB Server and Client
sudo zypper -n in mariadb mariadb-client

# Enable and start MySQL Server
sudo systemctl start mysql
sudo systemctl enable mysql

4 - Setup Laravel Project Scaffold

Installs and configures Laravel project

Login as user on node

Connect via SSH 
ssh user@hostname
This is a Bash Script make sure you run it with bash -l from a terminal session 
# Install git and zip
sudo zypper install -y git zip


# Download composer
git clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git

# Install dependencies
cd laravel && composer i

#Create .env file
cp .env.example .env

#Set MySQL password
sed -i 's/DB_PASSWORD=/DB_PASSWORD=rootpass/g' .env

# Generate Laravel application key
php artisan key:generate

5 - Start Development Server

Starts development server

Login as user on node

Connect via SSH 
ssh user@hostname
This is a Bash Script make sure you run it with bash -l from a terminal session 
# Install screen
sudo zypper install -y screen

# Configure screen 
sudo echo "zombie xy" >> ~/.screenrc

# Change working directory
cd ~/laravel

# Start Laravel artisan server in backaground
screen -d -m php artisan serve --host 0.0.0.0