Starting with laravel on ubuntu

Question

I\'m trying laravel as a PHP framework, I have already extracted the laravel zip into ~/opt/xampp/htdocs/laravel but when I go to localhost/laravel

Answer 1

Change permission to the storage and bootstrap folders like so

sudo chmod -R 777 ./storage ./bootstrap

Answer 2

In your .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^index.php(.*)$ /public/index.php [L]

Answer 3

Your on the right track, after install of laravel you need to ensure the storage directory has the correct permissions:

sudo chmod o+w storage 

Then make sure you are serving your public folder and not your laravel folder in apaches document root

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /Users/JonSnow/Sites/MySite/public
    ServerName mysite.dev
</VirtualHost>

Both requirements are covered here

Answer 4

On the Laravel forum, Kaspien gave this usefull answers:

You do have to chmod 777, but only on the storage/views folder to use blade, which happens to be the view engine the default Laravel view uses. I usually chmod 777 all storage/* directories on a fresh install of Laravel before I start a project, since they have to be writable for views, sessions, etc.

From the thread: http://forums.laravel.com/viewtopic.php?id=1552

Answer 5

for just getting start with laravel, I just do these following steps:

sudo chmod -R 770 /your/path/to/laravel/folder/

then add www-data group to your laravel

sudo chgrp -R www-data /your/path/to/laravel/folder/

Answer 6

Final Update
I finally solved it, what happened was that the laravel folder was read protected, what i had to do was to set chmod 755 -R laravel and then chmod -R o+w storage and voila i had laravel up and running, thanks to everybody that contributed.