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Steps to do after downloading the source code

Step 1

Install composer dependencies by the composer.json file with running the following command

composer install

Step 2

Create an empty database for your application in phpmyadmin

Step 3

• Duplicate the .env.example file and rename it to .env

• Fill out the informations based on your environment especially the part about database connection

• Generate a new application key with the following command

php artisan key:generate

Step 4

Run the migration and seed scripts with

php artisan migrate --seed

Step 5

Create a virtualhost for your application in your apache httpd-vhosts.conf file

Example vhost config

Listen 8081

<VirtualHost *:8081>
    DocumentRoot "%APP_DIR%\public"
    ServerName localhost
    <Directory "%APP_DIR%\public">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

• First open an available port with Listen
• After opening a port pay attention to use the same port in your first line of VirtualHost declaration that you just opened
• Replace the two %APP_DIR% to the path of your Laravel installation