Setting up Ubuntu 15.04 + PHP5.6 + Nginx + MySQL + Laravel 5 + npm + Bower + Gulp

1. install a brand new Ubuntu 15.04 amd64 version

2. uname -a

    Linux jasler 3.19.0-15-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 16 23:32:37 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

3. Setting root password

    sudo passwd root
    >> root

1. check if apache2 is installed and port 80 is being used

    ps -A | grep apache
    sudo netstat -nlp  | grep 80

remove if installed:

    sudo killall apache2
    sudo apt-get remove apache2

1. Install Nginx

    sudo apt-get install nginx
    nginx -v
        nginx version: nginx/1.6.2 (Ubuntu)

2. Install MySQL

    sudo apt-get install mysql-server

It will also install mysql-client and other dependencies in the meantime.

Press Enter on seeing a blank terminal to proceed.

Set the root password root for this time.

1. Install PHP5 and its extensions

    sudo apt-get install php5 php5-mcrypt php5-gd php5-mysql php5-fpm php5-curl

It also installs apache2 automatically, if it conflicts with nginx, we recommend to remove it.

Check the php and mysql version:

    php -v
    PHP 5.6.4-4ubuntu6.4 (cli) (built: Oct 28 2015 01:21:29) 
    Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
    Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
        with Zend OPcache v7.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2014, by Zend Technologies
 
 
    mysql -p -uroot -v
    Enter password: 
    Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
    Your MySQL connection id is 4
    Server version: 5.6.28-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 (Ubuntu)

1. Install npm

   sudo apt-get install npm
   npm -v
   1.4.21

update within it self:

    sudo npm install -g npm
    /usr/local/bin/npm -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
    npm@3.8.3 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm

Or install this way:

    sudo apt-get install curl
    curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup > install.sh
    sudo chmod +x install.sh
    sudo ./install.sh
    sudo apt-get install nodejs
    sudo npm install -g npm

1. Install git

   sudo apt-get install git

2. Creating dev folder:

change usr to your account

    sudo mkdir /home/wwwroot/
    sudo chown -R [usr].[usr] /home/wwwroot

Cloning repo:

cd /home/wwwroot/
git clone ssh://git@yourrepo.com:/home/git/yourrepo.git

npm install (within vpn)

sudo npm install

Install composer

cd ~
php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" > composer-setup.php
php composer-setup.php
sudo mv composer.phar /etc/php5/composer.phar
sudo chmod +x /etc/php5/composer.phar
sudo ln -s /etc/php5/composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

Install dependencies (vpn):

cd /home/wwwroot/wwwroot
composer install

Create Database and user, privileges:

mysql -p -u root
 
> create database yourdb;
> create user 'you'@'localhost';
> set password for you@localhost = PASSWORD('yourpasswd');
> grant all privileges on yourdb.* to you@localhost;
> show grants for you@localhost;
> flush privileges;

reset config for environment

cp .env.example .env
 
vi .env
 
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_DATABASE=yourdb
DB_USERNAME=yourame
DB_PASSWORD=yourpasswd

Database migration

php artisan key:generate
    Application key [s1ZYF0BZydwbRRcrNc58crIC20uwBRzT] set successfully.
php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed

Install bower, gulp

sudo npm install bower -g
sudo npm install gulp -g

Bower install dependencies (no-VPN prefered)

bower install

Generate css, js etc. frontend files

gulp
 
gulp watch

Make a directory for log files,

sudo mkdir /home/wwwlogs
sudo chown www-data.www-data /home/wwwlogs

1. Reload Nginx

   sudo nginx -s reload

Check the status:

    sudo service nginx status

1. Restart Nginx

   sudo service nginx restart

sudo mv yoursite.conf sites-available/