Installing Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04

Laravel is a popular PHP framework used for developing web applications. It provides developer-friendly syntax, elegant code structure, and various built-in features that make web development faster and easier.

To install Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04, you can follow these steps:

1. Open your terminal
2. Update the package list by running the following command:
   sudo apt update
3. Install PHP and required extensions:
   sudo apt install php php-cli php-fpm php-json php-common php-mysql php-zip php-gd php-mbstring php-curl php-xml php-pear php-bcmath
4. Install Composer, a dependency management tool used in Laravel projects:
   sudo apt install composer
5. Move to the directory where you want to install Laravel:
   cd /var/www
6. Download and install Laravel using Composer:
   composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel your-project-name
7. Change ownership of the Laravel project directory to the web server user (e.g., www-data):
   sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/your-project-name
8. Set the appropriate permissions:
   sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/your-project-name
9. Create the .env file by copying the .env.example file:
   cd /var/www/your-project-name
cp .env.example .env
10. Generate the application key:
    php artisan key:generate

Now you have successfully installed Laravel on your Ubuntu 20.04 server. You can start developing your web application using Laravel's rich features and ecosystem.