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Awal Ariansyah
Awal Ariansyah

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Setup PHP Laravel (Postgresql & mysql) Development Environment on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy

#ubuntu #php #laravel #postgres

I'm not a big fan of PHP and mainly worked with Node.js project, this time I get a project using a legacy PHP/Laravel code bases and It's really frustrating for me to just run the code because I'm not getting used to the ecosystem.

In case you are running the same issues or maybe me, I decided to wrote it here.

OS Information

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Installing PHP

Be sure which PHP version you want to install, because compatibility matter. A lot. Seriously.

The default APT repository is PHP 8. In my case, I need to install PHP 7.4.

sudo apt install -y apache2 php7.4 php7.4-common php7.4-cli php7.4-xml php7.4-mbstring php7.4-gd php7.4-pgsql
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Installing composer 

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/bin --filename=composer
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Laravel global installer 

composer global require laravel/installer
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Installing mysql 

sudo apt install -y mysql-server php7.4-mysql
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Installing postgresql 

sudo apt install -y postgresql pgadmin4
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Setup postgresql & pgadmin 

sudo /usr/pgadmin4/bin/setup-web.sh

sudo -i -u postgres

psql

ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'yourpostgrespassword';

\q

logout
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The default postgresql information:

Hostname: localhost
Port: 5432
Username: postgres
Password: yourpostgrespassword
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Now you can access it via Pgadmin desktop app or the web version at http://127.0.0.1/pgadmin4/browser/

Run existing laravel project

  1. Clone the project to local
  2. cd into it
  3. Run composer install
  4. Fix every composer's lockfiles issues (usually missing php extension) (if there's any). Example: 
sudo apt install -y php7.4-gd
sudo service apache2 restart
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Then run composer install again.

  1. Run npm install Make sure you have already installed python. In my case I need to install python2 and set the npm global variable. 
sudo apt install python2
npm config set python /usr/bin/python2
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  1. Run npm run dev
  2. Run cp .env.example .env
  3. Edit the .env file configuration (especially in DB, make sure you created an empty database first)
  4. Run php artisan key:generate
  5. Run php artisan migrate
  6. Run php artisan serve

Hope it helps~

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