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# composer

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | ph


# nginx 

`sudo mkdir -p /var/www/laravel`

Next, we are going to modify the nginx's default configuration file: /etc/nginx/sites-available/default. But before that, just make a backup of the file:

```
sudo mkdir ~/backups
sudo cp /etc/nginx/sites-available/default ~/Backups/default
Use the following command to edit the file
```

`sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default`


Next modify default to this:

```
server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

        root /var/www/laravel/public;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
        server_name <Your Domain name / Public IP Address>;

        location / {
                # First attempt to serve request as file, then
                # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
                # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
                # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
        }
        location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;
        }
}
```
Notice the difference:

`try_files $uri $uri/ =404;` has been changed to `try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;`

and location ~ \.php$ { ... } block has been added.

Restart nginx.

`sudo service nginx restart`

# setup laravel

sudo chown -R :www-data /var/www/laravel

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/laravel/storage

#troubleshooting

throws errors for packages when creating laravel package?

`sudo apt-cache search php7-*`

and find the packages that it requires