Using Laravel Valet On Linux/Ubuntu! 🐘 🔑

Valet is an elegant way to create a local webserver for testing your Laravel applications on Mac.

Fortunately there is a fork allowing us to use Valet on a Linux based OS as well thanks to @cpriego.

Let's get started.

Helpful Links

• Docs

• Repo

Prerequisites

• Laravel installation must be complete (see Setting Up A Laravel Local Dev Environment On Ubuntu

• Ubuntu 18.04/19.04

Installing Dependencies

sudo apt-get install php7.3-curl
sudo apt-get install jq
sudo apt-get install xsel
sudo apt-get install libnss3-tools

Installing Valet

composer global require cpriego/valet-linux

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

Restart your terminal

Serving your project

cd into project root and run the following command

valet park

The web URL generated will be {project_folder_name}.test.

For example:

laravel new blog

cd blog

valet park

will provide a working URL of blog.test

Things to remember

If you have a local Apache serve running you need to disable it or your Valet URLs will lead to the Apache welcome page.

sudo systemctl stop apache2
sudo systemctl disable apache2

To un-park a project cd into the root and run

valet forget

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