I’ve been coding more often on Macs recently, and now I need to setup Laravel on a MacBook Pro, so I decided I’ll share my setup notes for Laravel 5 on Mac OS X El Capitan with you.

installing laravel 5 on apache

The guide assumes you already have a local development environment set up on your Mac, and covers the following:

  • Environment Requirements
  • Composer installation
  • Laravel installation via Composer
  • Directory permissions configuration
  • Creation of a Laravel route (to test)
  • Integration with a database (to test)
  • Hiccups I encountered and fixes/workaround

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