Laravel is the most popular, free, and open-source PHP framework in the world, known for its expressive and elegant syntax. Laravel is accessible, powerful, and offers some of the best web development tools required for large, robust, and modern applications.

In this article, you will learn how to install the Laravel PHP Framework on Ubuntu 20.04 server running on the Nginx web server.

Prerequisites

Step 1: Installing Required PHP Modules

After setting up the LEMP stack on your Ubuntu 20.04 server as described in the guide in the link above, you need to install additional PHP extensions required by Laravel as follows:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt php-common php-json php-mbstring php-zip php-xml php-tokenizer

Install PHP Modules in Ubuntu

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