What Is Laravelīefore we dive in to the setup, what is Laravel? Laravel is one of the newer PHP frameworks, dubbed as “The PHP Framework For Web Artisans.”įirst released by Taylor Otwell on the 22nd February, 2012, it’s risen rapidly to become the most popular open-source, PHP, project on GitHub.ĭubbed as being great for both beginners and more experienced developers, Laravel comes packed with features, including RESTful routing, fast and efficient templating, a feature-rich ORM layer andmigrations support. So if you’re keen to step further, you’re in the best position to do so.
By the time we’re done, you’ll see the site, as in the screenshot below.īefore we get started though, I should say that it won’t be a shining example of a world-beating application, but it will have the core Laravel 4 framework installed, ready and configured with a connection to a MySQL backend database.
PLESK INSTALL HOW TO
In today’s tutorial, I’m taking you through how to set up and deploy a basic Laravel 4 application on Plesk 12. Given the flexibility of Plesk 12, as administrators, developers and devops, we’re able to do take care of all the necessary steps manually. This is a little unfortunate, but it’s no deal breaker and to be fair, as they’re frameworks, not complete applications, it makes sense. Plesk 12 comes with a range of pre-built installation wizards for a number of the most popular PHP CMS’ on the market, such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, but not for the major PHP frameworks, such as Zend Framework 2, Laravel, FuelPHP and Symfony.