How to install laravel 5.6.16 on centos 7

After the installation process, you can use the commands below to start your Apache service and make it run at startup

[root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl start httpd.service 
[root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl enable httpd.service 
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/httpd.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service.

Next, we are going to install php 7.1 It is not provided by the official RHEL repository so you have to add “ Webtatic” repo in order to install it easily.
First, install EPEL repository with the following command

[root@linuxhelp ~]# yum install epel-release
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.dhakacom.com
 * extras: mirror.dhakacom.com
 * updates: mirror.dhakacom.com
Resolving Dependencies
-->  Running transaction check
--->  Package epel-release.noarch 0:7-9 will be installed
-->  Finished Dependency Resolution

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Running transaction
  Installing : epel-release-7-9.noarch                                                                                       1/1 
  Verifying  : epel-release-7-9.noarch                                                                                       1/1 

Installed:
  epel-release.noarch 0:7-9                                                                                                      

Complete!

Now you can add the Webtatic repo

[root@linuxhelp ~]# rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm
Retrieving https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.BH9cmU: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 62e74ca5: NOKEY
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:webtatic-release-7-3             ################################# [100%]

execute the command below to easily install PHP 7.1 and the needed extensions

[root@linuxhelp ~]# yum install php71w php71w-common php71w-gd php71w-phar php71w-xml php71w-cli php71w-mbstring php71w-tokenizer php71w-openssl php71w-pdo
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
epel/x86_64/metalink                                                                                      | 7.6 kB  00:00:00     
epel                                                                                                      | 4.7 kB  00:00:00     
webtatic                                                                                                  | 3.6 kB  00:00:00  
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Installed:
  mod_php71w.x86_64 0:7.1.14-1.w7         php71w-cli.x86_64 0:7.1.14-1.w7              php71w-common.x86_64 0:7.1.14-1.w7        
  php71w-gd.x86_64 0:7.1.14-1.w7          php71w-mbstring.x86_64 0:7.1.14-1.w7         php71w-pdo.x86_64 0:7.1.14-1.w7           
  php71w-xml.x86_64 0:7.1.14-1.w7        

Complete!

Verify the php version using the following command

[root@linuxhelp ~]# php -v
PHP 7.1.14 (cli) (built: Feb  4 2018 09:05:29) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies

Download Composer for installing the latest version of Laravel and also we need to get the Composer dependency manager

[root@linuxhelp ~]# curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
All settings correct for using Composer
Downloading...

Composer (version 1.6.3) successfully installed to: /root/composer.phar
Use it: php composer.phar

Execute the following command to move your Composer binary file to the executable path

[root@linuxhelp ~]# mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

Now you can run the command below to download and install Laravel directly into your Apache document root

[root@linuxhelp ~]# composer create-project laravel/laravel /var/www/html/laravel
Installing laravel/laravel (v5.6.12)
  - Installing laravel/laravel (v5.6.12): Downloading (100%)         
Created project in /var/www/html/laravel
>  @php -r " file_exists(' .env' ) || copy(' .env.example' , ' .env' ) " 
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Package operations: 70 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals
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Generating optimized autoload files
>  IlluminateFoundationComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump
>  @php artisan package:discover
Discovered Package: fideloper/proxy
Discovered Package: laravel/tinker
Discovered Package: nunomaduro/collision
Package manifest generated successfully.
>  @php artisan key:generate
Application key [base64:La3/wukUecCGrWo466D/vfN0s9nUac9ej1w6qe8aCsA=] set successfully.

we have to Set the correct DocumentRoot so Open the HTTPD global configuration file

[root@linuxhelp ~]# nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Find the line that refers to

DocumentRoot " /var/www/html

And change with the following line

DocumentRoot " /var/www/html/laravel/public" 

Then save and exit. Now Restart Apache to take effect

[root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl restart httpd

Set the Permissions, execute the following command one by one to set the proper permissions:

[root@linuxhelp ~]# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/laravel
[root@linuxhelp ~]# chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/laravel/storage

[root@linuxhelp ~]# cd /var/www/html/laravel
[root@linuxhelp laravel]# php artisan -v
Laravel Framework 5.6.16