Laravel Quick Step Installation

 

# INSTALLATION 

                                  Via Laravel Installer

             First, download the Laravel installer using Composer.

                     composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

Make sure to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH (or C:\%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin if working with Windows) so the laravel executable is found when you run the laravel command in your terminal.
Once installed, the simple laravel new command will create a fresh Laravel installation in the directory you specify. For instance, laravel new blog would create a directory named blog containing a fresh Laravel installation with all dependencies installed. This method of installation is much faster than installing via Composer.

Via Composer

The Laravel framework utilizes Composer for installation and dependency management. If you haven't already, start by installing Composer.
Now you can install Laravel by issuing the following command from your terminal:

               composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name 4.2.*

This command will download and install a fresh copy of Laravel in a new your-project-name folder within your current directory.
If you prefer, you can alternatively download a copy of the Laravel repository from GitHub manually. Next run the composer install command in the root of your manually created project directory. This command will download and install the framework's dependencies.

Permissions

After installing Laravel, you may need to grant the web server write permissions to the app/storage directories. See the Installation documentation for more details on configuration.

 

Serving Laravel

 

Typically, you may use a web server such as Apache or Nginx to serve your Laravel applications. If you are on PHP 5.4+ and would like to use PHP's built-in development server, you may use the serve Artisan command:

                                       php artisan serve