Valet is an elegant way to create a local webserver for testing your Laravel applications on Mac.
Fortunately there is a fork allowing us to use Valet on a Linux based OS as well thanks to @cpriego.
Let's get started.
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Prerequisites
Laravel installation must be complete (see Setting Up A Laravel Local Dev Environment On Ubuntu
Ubuntu 18.04/19.04
Installing Dependencies
sudo apt-get install php7.3-curl
sudo apt-get install jq
sudo apt-get install xsel
sudo apt-get install libnss3-tools
Installing Valet
composer global require cpriego/valet-linux
test -d ~/.composer && bash ~/.composer/vendor/bin/valet install || bash ~/.config/composer/vendor/bin/valet install
Restart your terminal
Serving your project
cd into project root and run the following command
valet park
The web URL generated will be {project_folder_name}.test.
For example:
laravel new blog
cd blog
valet park
will provide a working URL of blog.test
Things to remember
If you have a local Apache serve running you need to disable it or your Valet URLs will lead to the Apache welcome page.
sudo systemctl stop apache2
sudo systemctl disable apache2
To un-park a project cd into the root and run
valet forget
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