How to Install Laravel?

• For managing dependencies, Laravel uses composer.
• Ensure you have a Composer installed on your system before you install Laravel.
• So, before using Laravel, make sure you have Composer installed on your machine.

Step 1

• Visit the following URL and download composer to install it on your system.

https://getcomposer.org/download

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Step 2

• After the Composer is installed, check the installation by typing the Composer command in the command prompt as shown in the following screenshot.

Step 3

• Create a new directory anywhere in your system for your new Laravel project.
• After that, move to path where you have created the new directory and type the following command there to install Laravel.

composer create wikitechy-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist

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Step 4

• The above command will install Laravel in the current directory. Start the Laravel service by executing the following command.

php artisan serve

Step 5

• After executing the above command, you will see a screen as shown below

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Step 6

• Copy the URL underlined in gray in the above screenshot and open that URL in the browser.
• If you see the following screen, it implies Laravel has been installed successfully.

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