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There seems to be a lot of confusion on the web when it comes to creating a local laravel development enviroment in Linux. I would like to show a really fast way to get up and running. The following method was tested in Linux MInt. I will add instructions for Windows too.

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System Requirements

• VirtualBox
  • Allows you to run virtual enviroments
• Vagrant
  • Vagrant is a tool that will install a complete virtual development environment. (Aapache, PHP, Mysql
• Composer (Optional)
  • PHP Package Manager)
• nodejs (Optional)
  • Needed by Gulp which will be used to compile the frontend stuff css, js)

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Composer & nodejs are optional since they are already installed in your vagrant enviroment, however I strongly recommend installing them directly in your system because they work faster than in the virtual machine.

Linux - Installing Tools.

Run the following commands

Install Virtual Box

sudo apt-get install virtualbox 

Install Vagrant

sudo apt-get install vagrant

Install Composer

sudo apt-get install composer 

Install Nodejs

sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy 

Creating a new virtual enviroment.

In this case we will use a vIrtual enviroment called Scotchbox. It comes with absolutely everything a Web Developer will ever need.

You can install it by running or downloading that repo from github here:

git clone https://github.com/scotch-io/scotch-box.git my-project

Note that Vagrantfile where you define the IP Address you would like to use for this vvirtual enviroment.

Start Virtual Environment/Vagrant

Open a new terminal and go to your project's folder. (Where your vagrant file is located) and run:

 vagrant up

This will download a Linux box with all tools you will ever need preinstalled.

To access your Virtual Enviroment using ssh

 vagrant ssh

Done! At this point you have a fully working Virtual Enviroment. Now open 192.168.33.10 in your browser and you will see the website from your virtual enviroment.

Happy coding!