Laravel Install into Directory

This is article shows how to install Laravel to a certain directory. Basically, it can be done using composer utility. Using composer which is followed by the following parameter, it can be used to download and install Laravel into directory specified so that it can be utilized further to develop web application based on Laravel framework. Below is the command pattern for aiming or achieving the purpose in installing Laravel-based web application framework :

composer create-project laravel/laravel directory_name

Take for an example the directory name will be ‘laravel54’. So, the command executed will be shown as follows :

user@hostname:/var/www/html/testing$ composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel54
Installing laravel/laravel (v5.4.19)
  - Installing laravel/laravel (v5.4.19): Downloading (100%)         
Created project in laravel54
> php -r "file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');"
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Package operations: 59 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals
  - Installing symfony/polyfill-mbstring (v1.3.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing symfony/var-dumper (v3.2.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing jakub-onderka/php-console-color (0.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing jakub-onderka/php-console-highlighter (v0.3.2): Loading from cache
  - Installing dnoegel/php-xdg-base-dir (0.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing nikic/php-parser (v3.0.5): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing psr/log (1.0.2): Loading from cache
  - Installing symfony/debug (v3.2.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/console (v3.2.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing psy/psysh (v0.8.3): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing vlucas/phpdotenv (v2.4.0): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/css-selector (v3.2.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing tijsverkoyen/css-to-inline-styles (2.2.0): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/routing (v3.2.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/process (v3.2.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/http-foundation (v3.2.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/event-dispatcher (v3.2.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/http-kernel (v3.2.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/finder (v3.2.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing swiftmailer/swiftmailer (v5.4.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing paragonie/random_compat (v2.0.10): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing ramsey/uuid (3.6.1): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/translation (v3.2.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing nesbot/carbon (1.22.1): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing mtdowling/cron-expression (v1.2.0): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing monolog/monolog (1.22.1): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing league/flysystem (1.0.38): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing erusev/parsedown (1.6.2): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing doctrine/inflector (v1.1.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing laravel/framework (v5.4.19): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing laravel/tinker (v1.0.0): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing fzaninotto/faker (v1.6.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing hamcrest/hamcrest-php (v1.2.2): Loading from cache
  - Installing mockery/mockery (0.9.9): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/yaml (v3.2.7): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing sebastian/version (2.0.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/resource-operations (1.0.0): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing sebastian/recursion-context (2.0.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/object-enumerator (2.0.1): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing sebastian/global-state (1.1.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/exporter (2.0.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/environment (2.0.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/diff (1.4.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/comparator (1.2.4): Loading from cache
  - Installing doctrine/instantiator (1.0.5): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpunit/php-text-template (1.2.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpunit/phpunit-mock-objects (3.4.3): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpunit/php-timer (1.0.9): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing phpunit/php-file-iterator (1.4.2): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/code-unit-reverse-lookup (1.0.1): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing phpunit/php-token-stream (1.4.11): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing phpunit/php-code-coverage (4.0.8): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing webmozart/assert (1.2.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpdocumentor/reflection-common (1.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpdocumentor/type-resolver (0.2.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock (3.1.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpspec/prophecy (v1.7.0): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing myclabs/deep-copy (1.6.1): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing phpunit/phpunit (5.7.19): Downloading (100%)         
symfony/var-dumper suggests installing ext-symfony_debug ()
symfony/console suggests installing symfony/filesystem ()
psy/psysh suggests installing ext-pdo-sqlite (The doc command requires SQLite to work.)
psy/psysh suggests installing hoa/console (A pure PHP readline implementation. You'll want this if your PHP install doesn't already support readline or libedit.)
symfony/routing suggests installing doctrine/annotations (For using the annotation loader)
symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/config (For using the all-in-one router or any loader)
symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection (For loading routes from a service)
symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/expression-language (For using expression matching)
symfony/event-dispatcher suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/browser-kit ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/class-loader ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/config ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection ()
paragonie/random_compat suggests installing ext-libsodium (Provides a modern crypto API that can be used to generate random bytes.)
ramsey/uuid suggests installing ircmaxell/random-lib (Provides RandomLib for use with the RandomLibAdapter)
ramsey/uuid suggests installing ext-libsodium (Provides the PECL libsodium extension for use with the SodiumRandomGenerator)
ramsey/uuid suggests installing ext-uuid (Provides the PECL UUID extension for use with the PeclUuidTimeGenerator and PeclUuidRandomGenerator)
ramsey/uuid suggests installing moontoast/math (Provides support for converting UUID to 128-bit integer (in string form).)
ramsey/uuid suggests installing ramsey/uuid-doctrine (Allows the use of Ramsey\Uuid\Uuid as Doctrine field type.)
ramsey/uuid suggests installing ramsey/uuid-console (A console application for generating UUIDs with ramsey/uuid)
symfony/translation suggests installing symfony/config ()
monolog/monolog suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Allow sending log messages to AWS services like DynamoDB)
monolog/monolog suggests installing doctrine/couchdb (Allow sending log messages to a CouchDB server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-amqp (Allow sending log messages to an AMQP server (1.0+ required))
monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-mongo (Allow sending log messages to a MongoDB server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing graylog2/gelf-php (Allow sending log messages to a GrayLog2 server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing mongodb/mongodb (Allow sending log messages to a MongoDB server via PHP Driver)
monolog/monolog suggests installing php-amqplib/php-amqplib (Allow sending log messages to an AMQP server using php-amqplib)
monolog/monolog suggests installing php-console/php-console (Allow sending log messages to Google Chrome)
monolog/monolog suggests installing rollbar/rollbar (Allow sending log messages to Rollbar)
monolog/monolog suggests installing ruflin/elastica (Allow sending log messages to an Elastic Search server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing sentry/sentry (Allow sending log messages to a Sentry server)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v2 (Allows you to use S3 storage with AWS SDK v2)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 (Allows you to use S3 storage with AWS SDK v3)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-azure (Allows you to use Windows Azure Blob storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-cached-adapter (Flysystem adapter decorator for metadata caching)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-copy (Allows you to use Copy.com storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-eventable-filesystem (Allows you to use EventableFilesystem)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-rackspace (Allows you to use Rackspace Cloud Files)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-sftp (Allows you to use SFTP server storage via phpseclib)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-webdav (Allows you to use WebDAV storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-ziparchive (Allows you to use ZipArchive adapter)
league/flysystem suggests installing spatie/flysystem-dropbox (Allows you to use Dropbox storage)
laravel/framework suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Required to use the SQS queue driver and SES mail driver (~3.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing doctrine/dbal (Required to rename columns and drop SQLite columns (~2.5).)
laravel/framework suggests installing guzzlehttp/guzzle (Required to use the Mailgun and Mandrill mail drivers and the ping methods on schedules (~6.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 (Required to use the Flysystem S3 driver (~1.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing league/flysystem-rackspace (Required to use the Flysystem Rackspace driver (~1.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing nexmo/client (Required to use the Nexmo transport (~1.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing pda/pheanstalk (Required to use the beanstalk queue driver (~3.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing predis/predis (Required to use the redis cache and queue drivers (~1.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing pusher/pusher-php-server (Required to use the Pusher broadcast driver (~2.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing symfony/dom-crawler (Required to use most of the crawler integration testing tools (~3.2).)
laravel/framework suggests installing symfony/psr-http-message-bridge (Required to psr7 bridging features (0.2.*).)
sebastian/global-state suggests installing ext-uopz (*)
phpunit/phpunit-mock-objects suggests installing ext-soap (*)
phpunit/php-code-coverage suggests installing ext-xdebug (^2.5.1)
phpunit/phpunit suggests installing phpunit/php-invoker (~1.1)
phpunit/phpunit suggests installing ext-xdebug (*)
Writing lock file
Generating autoload files
> Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postUpdate
> php artisan optimize
Generating optimized class loader
The compiled services file has been removed.
> php artisan key:generate
Application key [base64:0tp5+FqELX0v/W5+WFMYxq0OOtXlscIEyv3AUFKgpGE=] set successfully.
user@hostname:/var/www/html/testing$ 
user@hostname:/var/www/html/testing$ ls
laravel54
user@hostname:/var/www/html/testing

How about installing it into an existing directory?. Well, it can also be done by going to the specified directory. Since the working directory is also the directory specified which has been created before, the parameter named directory can be replaced by ‘.’. First of all, created the directory which is going to be used as a target of installation for an example, just define the name of the folder as ‘laravel-project’ :

user@hostname:/var/www/html/testing$ mkdir laravel-project
user@hostname:/var/www/html/testing/laravel-project$

The following command described on how to do it :

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

Below is the execution of the above command :

user@hostname:/var/www/html/testing/laravel-project$ composer create-project laravel/laravel=5.3 .
Installing laravel/laravel (v5.3.0)
  - Installing laravel/laravel (v5.3.0): Downloading (100%)         
Created project in .
> php -r "file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');"
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Package operations: 61 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals
  - Installing vlucas/phpdotenv (v2.4.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing symfony/polyfill-mbstring (v1.3.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing symfony/var-dumper (v3.1.10): Loading from cache
  - Installing symfony/translation (v3.1.10): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/routing (v3.1.10): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/process (v3.1.10): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing psr/log (1.0.2): Loading from cache
  - Installing symfony/debug (v3.1.10): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/http-foundation (v3.1.10): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/event-dispatcher (v3.2.7): Loading from cache
  - Installing symfony/http-kernel (v3.1.10): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/finder (v3.1.10): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/console (v3.1.10): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing swiftmailer/swiftmailer (v5.4.7): Loading from cache
  - Installing paragonie/random_compat (v2.0.10): Loading from cache
  - Installing ramsey/uuid (3.6.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing jakub-onderka/php-console-color (0.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing jakub-onderka/php-console-highlighter (v0.3.2): Loading from cache
  - Installing dnoegel/php-xdg-base-dir (0.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing nikic/php-parser (v3.0.5): Loading from cache
  - Installing psy/psysh (v0.8.3): Loading from cache
  - Installing nesbot/carbon (1.22.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing mtdowling/cron-expression (v1.2.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing monolog/monolog (1.22.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing league/flysystem (1.0.38): Loading from cache
  - Installing symfony/polyfill-util (v1.3.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing symfony/polyfill-php56 (v1.3.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing jeremeamia/superclosure (2.3.0): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing doctrine/inflector (v1.1.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing classpreloader/classpreloader (3.1.0): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing laravel/framework (v5.3.31): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing fzaninotto/faker (v1.6.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing hamcrest/hamcrest-php (v1.2.2): Loading from cache
  - Installing mockery/mockery (0.9.9): Loading from cache
  - Installing symfony/yaml (v3.2.7): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/version (2.0.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/resource-operations (1.0.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/recursion-context (2.0.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/object-enumerator (2.0.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/global-state (1.1.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/exporter (2.0.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/environment (2.0.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/diff (1.4.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/comparator (1.2.4): Loading from cache
  - Installing doctrine/instantiator (1.0.5): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpunit/php-text-template (1.2.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpunit/phpunit-mock-objects (3.4.3): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpunit/php-timer (1.0.9): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpunit/php-file-iterator (1.4.2): Loading from cache
  - Installing sebastian/code-unit-reverse-lookup (1.0.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpunit/php-token-stream (1.4.11): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpunit/php-code-coverage (4.0.8): Loading from cache
  - Installing webmozart/assert (1.2.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpdocumentor/reflection-common (1.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpdocumentor/type-resolver (0.2.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock (3.1.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpspec/prophecy (v1.7.0): Loading from cache
  - Installing myclabs/deep-copy (1.6.1): Loading from cache
  - Installing phpunit/phpunit (5.7.19): Loading from cache
  - Installing symfony/css-selector (v3.1.10): Loading from cache
  - Installing symfony/dom-crawler (v3.1.10): Loading from cache
symfony/var-dumper suggests installing ext-symfony_debug ()
symfony/translation suggests installing symfony/config ()
symfony/routing suggests installing doctrine/annotations (For using the annotation loader)
symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/config (For using the all-in-one router or any loader)
symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection (For loading routes from a service)
symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/expression-language (For using expression matching)
symfony/event-dispatcher suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/browser-kit ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/class-loader ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/config ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection ()
paragonie/random_compat suggests installing ext-libsodium (Provides a modern crypto API that can be used to generate random bytes.)
ramsey/uuid suggests installing ircmaxell/random-lib (Provides RandomLib for use with the RandomLibAdapter)
ramsey/uuid suggests installing ext-libsodium (Provides the PECL libsodium extension for use with the SodiumRandomGenerator)
ramsey/uuid suggests installing ext-uuid (Provides the PECL UUID extension for use with the PeclUuidTimeGenerator and PeclUuidRandomGenerator)
ramsey/uuid suggests installing moontoast/math (Provides support for converting UUID to 128-bit integer (in string form).)
ramsey/uuid suggests installing ramsey/uuid-doctrine (Allows the use of Ramsey\Uuid\Uuid as Doctrine field type.)
ramsey/uuid suggests installing ramsey/uuid-console (A console application for generating UUIDs with ramsey/uuid)
psy/psysh suggests installing ext-pdo-sqlite (The doc command requires SQLite to work.)
psy/psysh suggests installing hoa/console (A pure PHP readline implementation. You'll want this if your PHP install doesn't already support readline or libedit.)
monolog/monolog suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Allow sending log messages to AWS services like DynamoDB)
monolog/monolog suggests installing doctrine/couchdb (Allow sending log messages to a CouchDB server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-amqp (Allow sending log messages to an AMQP server (1.0+ required))
monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-mongo (Allow sending log messages to a MongoDB server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing graylog2/gelf-php (Allow sending log messages to a GrayLog2 server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing mongodb/mongodb (Allow sending log messages to a MongoDB server via PHP Driver)
monolog/monolog suggests installing php-amqplib/php-amqplib (Allow sending log messages to an AMQP server using php-amqplib)
monolog/monolog suggests installing php-console/php-console (Allow sending log messages to Google Chrome)
monolog/monolog suggests installing rollbar/rollbar (Allow sending log messages to Rollbar)
monolog/monolog suggests installing ruflin/elastica (Allow sending log messages to an Elastic Search server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing sentry/sentry (Allow sending log messages to a Sentry server)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v2 (Allows you to use S3 storage with AWS SDK v2)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 (Allows you to use S3 storage with AWS SDK v3)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-azure (Allows you to use Windows Azure Blob storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-cached-adapter (Flysystem adapter decorator for metadata caching)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-copy (Allows you to use Copy.com storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-eventable-filesystem (Allows you to use EventableFilesystem)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-rackspace (Allows you to use Rackspace Cloud Files)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-sftp (Allows you to use SFTP server storage via phpseclib)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-webdav (Allows you to use WebDAV storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-ziparchive (Allows you to use ZipArchive adapter)
league/flysystem suggests installing spatie/flysystem-dropbox (Allows you to use Dropbox storage)
laravel/framework suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Required to use the SQS queue driver and SES mail driver (~3.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing doctrine/dbal (Required to rename columns and drop SQLite columns (~2.4).)
laravel/framework suggests installing guzzlehttp/guzzle (Required to use the Mailgun and Mandrill mail drivers and the ping methods on schedules (~5.3|~6.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 (Required to use the Flysystem S3 driver (~1.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing league/flysystem-rackspace (Required to use the Flysystem Rackspace driver (~1.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing pda/pheanstalk (Required to use the beanstalk queue driver (~3.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing predis/predis (Required to use the redis cache and queue drivers (~1.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing pusher/pusher-php-server (Required to use the Pusher broadcast driver (~2.0).)
laravel/framework suggests installing symfony/psr-http-message-bridge (Required to use psr7 bridging features (0.2.*).)
sebastian/global-state suggests installing ext-uopz (*)
phpunit/phpunit-mock-objects suggests installing ext-soap (*)
phpunit/php-code-coverage suggests installing ext-xdebug (^2.5.1)
phpunit/phpunit suggests installing phpunit/php-invoker (~1.1)
phpunit/phpunit suggests installing ext-xdebug (*)
Writing lock file
Generating autoload files
> Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postUpdate
> php artisan optimize
Generating optimized class loader
The compiled class file has been removed.
> php artisan key:generate
Application key [base64:Tc2EiYme62mAZwe5rMHhdUUaym+GflRZTXJUQQYPNEo=] set successfully.
user@hostname:/var/www/html/testing/laravel-project$

So, the installing process of Laravel has been successfully carried out in current working directory.