Installing laravel on windows

If you're on linux, you can follow visit http://tecadmin.net/install-laravel-framework-on-ubuntu/

Step 01 

If you haven't installed xampp server on your PC, you need to download and install first since it offers the full stack for developing PHP web application.

https://downloadsapachefriends.global.ssl.fastly.net/xampp-files/5.6.14/xampp-win32-5.6.14-0-VC11-installer.exe?from_af=true

or

https://bitnami.com/stack/lamp if you're installing for Linux

Step 02

Composer is the basic requirement for laravel development where it handles most of the laravel development dependencies. Download and install the composer with shell menu enabled so that you can run it from right clicking in any windows explorer

https://getcomposer.org/Composer-Setup.exe

or

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

mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Step 03

Now it's time to install laravel framework, you can open the composer command prompt by right clicking in any windows explorer and click User composer here and type the following.

composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

Now wait for a few minutes while installing laravel on your PC

Make sure to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH so the laravel executable can be located by your system.

Composer Directory is located in
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin

Creating a new laravel application

Now you can create a new laravel project by typing
laravel new blog in the command prompt. This will craft a new laravel application ready to run if you create the folder inside htdocs folder or use composer

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name --prefer-dist

You could use --auth to include the auth scaffoldings in your new project.

Createing a new project with latest laravel version
composer update to update the composer version or

with the version name
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel=5.3.* blog
and then
composer update

Now set the application namespace so that it looks niche
php artisan app:name Essentials

Running the test application
Now in your browser, you can type http://localhost/blog/public/ and you will be able to see the crafted laravel application running locally.

If you're running in Ubuntu, you need to give folder permission

sudo chmod 755 -R laravel_project and then

chmod -R o+w laravel_project/storage

composer dump-autoload

or

php artisan cache:clear 

chmod -R 777 app/storage 

composer dump-autoload

For Laravel 5.4 it needs to give 775 or 777 access to bootstrap/cache folder as well

sudo chmod -R 777 bootstrap/cache/