From Zero to Laravel Hero: PHP Environment Setup on Ubuntu 22.04LTS

It is recommended that you configure your Ubuntu environment to execute Laravel projects using a Nginx server. You appear to be able to connect your Nginx server to PHPMyAdmin. On your Ubuntu system, you can install MySQL server with PHP-8.1.

Before Running Any Command You Need To Run

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

After running that command we have to install curl.

sudo apt install curl

Now check the curl version

curl --version

Then install the nginx server php dependencies

sudo apt install nginx

Now we can install php with fpm

sudo apt install php-fpm

Now check the PHP version

php -v

Run this again

sudo apt-get update

Install nginx repository

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/nginx

To check the status of PHP that it has collaborated properly with the Ngnix repository

sudo systemctl status php8.1-fpm

Now Restart Nginx

sudo nginx -t

then

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Install Network Manager Now

sudo apt-get install php-zip && sudo apt-get install php-mbstring && sudo apt-get install php-curl

Install PHP Extensions

sudo apt-get install php-zip && sudo apt-get install php-mbstring && sudo apt-get install php-curl

NB: It will automatically detect your version and do its work.

Run this again

sudo apt-get update

Install Composer

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o composer-setup.php

Set Composer Address

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

Now Check the Composer version

composer

Run this again

sudo apt-get update

Install valet

composer global require cpriego/valet-linux

then

test -d /.composer && bash /.composer/vendor/bin/valet install || bash ~/.config/composer/vendor/bin/valet install

The command for the updated valet version

composer global update

then

valet install

Run this again

sudo apt-get update

Install MySQL Server

sudo apt install mysql-server -y

Adjusting MySQL Authentication

sudo mysql

then

SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user;

then

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';

then

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Now exits by

exit;

Run this again

sudo apt-get update

Install phpmyadmin

sudo apt install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-zip php-gd php-json php-curl

if you face any difficulties follow the link [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-20-04]

Symlink phpmyadmin With MySQL Server

Now You have to go to your C Drive & open the Terminal and run this

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www

This will give Permission to Symlink now come back to the root terminal & run this

ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/phpmyadmin

then

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/phpmyadmin

Run this again

sudo apt-get update

Install Node JS

sudo apt install nodejs

then check nodejs version

node -v

Install NPM

sudo apt install npm

then

sudo apt-get install --reinstall nodejs-legacy     # fix /usr/bin/node

You are good to go, Now develop your web application in your Ubuntu by Using Laravel & PHP....

Serving Sites by Valet
Once Valet is installed, you’re ready to start serving sites. Valet provides two commands to help you serve your Laravel sites: park and link.

The Park Command
Create a new directory on your machine by running something like

mkdir ~/folder-name

Next,

cd ~/folder-name

and run

valet park

This command will register your current working directory as a path that Valet should search for folder-name. Next, create a new Laravel site within this directory: Open http://folder-name.test in your browser. That’s all there is to it. Now, any Laravel project you create within your “parked” directory will automatically be served using the http://folder-name.test convention.

The link Command
The link command may also be used to serve your Laravel sites. This command is useful if you want to serve a single site in a directory and not the entire directory.

To use the command, navigate to one of your projects, open your terminal and run

valet link

Valet will create a symbolic link in ~/.valet/Sites which points to your current working directory. After running the link command, you can access the site in your browser at http://app-name.test. To see a listing of all of your linked directories, run this command

valet links

You may use this to destroy the symbolic link.

valet unlink app-name