Initializing Laravel#

Initializing an Empty Laravel Project#

Create an empty directory and a Reward Laravel environment

$ mkdir ~/Sites/your-awesome-laravel-project
$ reward env-init your-awesome-laravel-project --environment-type=laravel

Sign a new certificate for your dev domain

$ reward sign-certificate your-awesome-laravel-project.test

Bring up the Reward environment
```
$ reward env up
```

Create the laravel project in the php container

$ reward shell

$ composer create-project --no-install --no-scripts --prefer-dist \
    laravel/laravel /tmp/laravel-tmp
$ rsync -au --remove-source-files /tmp/laravel-tmp/ /var/www/html/

Install the composer packages and create an app key

$ reward shell

$ composer install

$ php artisan key:generate --show

# Add the previously generated key to your .env file with your favourite editor
# It should be added using the following format
APP_KEY=base64:yourkey

# Import the new .env content to the runtime environment variables
$ source .env

# Generate your config cache
$ php artisan config:cache

Note

Now you can reach the project on the following url:

https://your-awesome-laravel-project.test

Initializing a Laravel Backpack Demo Project#

Clone the code and initialize a Laravel Reward environment

$ git clone https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/demo.git ~/Sites/demo
$ cd ~/Sites/demo
$ reward env-init demo --environment-type=laravel

Sign a new certificate for your dev domain
```
$ reward sign-certificate demo.test
```
Bring up the Reward environment
```
$ reward env up
```

Install the composer packages and initialize the database

$ reward shell

$ composer install
$ php artisan key:generate --show

# Add the previously generated key to your .env file with your favourite editor
# It should be added using the following format
APP_KEY=base64:yourkey

# Import the new .env content to the runtime environment variables
$ source .env

$ php artisan migrate
$ php artisan db:seed

Note

Now you can reach the project on the following url:

https://demo.test

The default admin credentials are the following:

user: admin@example.com
pass: admin