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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Getting Started with Laravel Installing VirtualBox & Vagrant

Boon Kiat Seah
Boon Kiat Seah
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Posted by Boon Kiat Seah
Boon Kiat Seah
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Does laravel work with MAMP ?

Hi, will like to learn and understand if laravel can work in MAMP server environment ? Past php teachers and wordpress teachers always work with MAMP. Will greatly appreciate that Hampton or anybody can tell us what is the reason and should the vagrant and virtual box is the better choice, will perform the install on my computer.

thanks

5 Answers

miguelcastro2
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miguelcastro2
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miguelcastro2
miguelcastro2
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Yes, Laravel will work on MAMP. The reason many people are switching to Vagrant is that it provides a more portable and easy to use development environment that is pre-configured and ready to deploy.

Boon Kiat Seah
Boon Kiat Seah
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Boon Kiat Seah
Boon Kiat Seah
66,664 Points

Thanks Miguel Castro. It is really nice for you to help out. At least now I know there are some advantages, will start to install it on my mac.

Thanks so much

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
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thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
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Web development often requires working with multiple dependencies, and installing of this on your machine can eventually lead to problems / conflicts.

Putting all of this stuff into a box means you can not only house those dependencies, but also easily match your live server configuration. This is pretty good thing to have! If you have multiple live projects on different hosting providers, you're going to want something flexible for local development.

MAMP will get you started but opting for vagrant straight away might just save you a lot of headaches (and you'll learn some really good stuff too!)

jason chan
jason chan
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jason chan
jason chan
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https://gist.github.com/kkirsche/5710272

localhost/public you have to locate the public folder. thats the main website for laravel. index.php is located there. You should always refer to that is main page.

Alex Sazanovich
Alex Sazanovich
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Alex Sazanovich
Alex Sazanovich
4,282 Points

The latest version of macOS you can not to install virtual box?