Start New Project is the title of the next part of Build a Blog with Laravel and is where we are at right now. In this second part, we will start a new Laravel based Blog. Do Part1 Get Started before going any further, unless you already using Larvel globally.

Start a New Project

The first thing we need is a name for a blogging system. Why are we doing a Blogging System? Well it seems that many tutorials are done that way. This causes me to think that it may be easier to learn. Most people know what a blog is. They also know what they expect to see when viewing a blog.

I do feel that way as I was using Symfony 3. I used old tutorials and made them work. I learned a lot about Symfony that way. I hope that will also be the case with using the Laravel Framework.

1. Choose a Project Name

I will use the name mxBlog for this project. So on the command line, do this:

laravel new mxBlog

2. Set Permissions

Set the permissions in your Project Directory. Mein is ~/public_html/mxBlog  – change if needed.

chown -R www-data.www-data ~/public_html/mxBlog/
chmod -R 755 ~/public_html/mxBlog/
chmod -R 777 ~/public_html/mxBlog/storage/

3. .htaccess

I like adding an .htaccess file to to root of the project. Mein is like this :

# Enable rewrite engine and route requests to framework
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/robots.txt
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/robots.txt [L]

# resources
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/images/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/js/ [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/fonts/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/css/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [QSA,L]

Now you should see your project site start page. In my case it’s, http://mxblog.dev.

We will now move on to the next Step.

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