Laravel 5.X directory permissions / ownership setup

August 14, 2018August 14, 2018 Catzie Leave a comment

According to the Laravel docs, “After installing Laravel, you may need to configure some permissions. Directories within the storage and the bootstrap/cache directories should be writable by your web server or Laravel will not run”. After running this command to install Laravel via Composer:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

1	composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Change directory ownership by running these commands:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/project/storage
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/project/bootstrap/cache

1 2	sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/project/storage sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/project/bootstrap/cache

Then you […]

Installing Laravel 5 on Apache in Mac OS X El Capitan

October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 Catzie 4 Comments

Last time, I wrote a guide on How to install Laravel 5 in Windows with XAMPP. I’ve been coding more often on Mac computers recently, and now I need to setup Laravel on a MacBook Pro, so I decided I’ll write a guide on how to install Laravel 5 on Mac OS X El Capitan […]

Laravel 5: create route group that is only available during testing (Middleware)

July 22, 2016August 4, 2016 Catzie Leave a comment

Today I needed to protect a group of routes from everything except my testing environment. I need to run PHPUnit tests that depend on certain routes, but I don’t want those routes to be available anywhere else. I’ll share in this blog post what I did to get what I need. Assumptions in this tutorial: […]

Laravel 5: activate API token guard and print “Unauthorized” instead of login redirect

July 21, 2016 Catzie Leave a comment

In Laravel 5, I wrap my API routes in a route group like this:

Route::group(['middleware' => ['auth:api','throttle']], function() {
    // API routes here
});

Route::group(['middleware' => ['auth:api','throttle']], function() {

// API routes here

});

Notice that I use auth:api and throttle on my middleware array. auth:api turns on the auth middleware with API token as guard, while throttle activates rate limiter for APIs. To get started with API token authentication, you may read https://gistlog.co/JacobBennett/090369fbab0b31130b51. […]

Laravel 5 RESTful API with Basic Auth: PHPUnit Testing

July 9, 2016 Catzie Leave a comment

I’ve been using PHPUnit to test my RESTful API. PHPUnit is ready to use in Laravel. In my Laravel-based RESTful API, I have an endpoint /api/users which returns JSON data when you send a GET request. The API will only return such data if the client sends the corrent username and password (Basic Authentication). The […]

Laravel update from v.5.0.35 to v.5.2.32 hiccups and solutions

May 23, 2016July 21, 2016 Catzie 2 Comments

I tried to update Laravel 5 today and here were the steps I had to take. First checked my Laravel version before the update:

$ php artisan --version
Laravel Framework version 5.0.35

1 2	$ php artisan --version Laravel Framework version 5.0.35

Edited composer.json in my laravel’s root folder like such:

	"require": {
		"laravel/framework": "5.2.*"
	}

"require": {

"laravel/framework": "5.2.*"

}

Run this on command line:

composer update

1	composer update

You might need to delete root folder’s composer.lock file before the update can actually […]

Laravel 5: Create controller under new folder and routing

May 22, 2016 Catzie Leave a comment

So here I am on a Sunday, trying to make progress with a personal Laravel 5 site I need to work on. As I bear with the noise outside in the street (some crazy neighbors set up a swimming pool IN THE STREET! :oops:), I’m trying to figure out how too create a new Laravel […]

Laravel 5: How to change Auth URL from “/auth/login” to just “login”:

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 Catzie Leave a comment

Just sharing a link telling us how to remove the “auth” in the URL for Laravel’s pre-made login system. You need to modify App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::handle() method and change auth/login to /login. Then you need to add $loginPath property to your \App\Http\Controllers\Auth\AuthController class. Source: How to change default redirect URL of Laravel 5 Auth filter?

Laravel 5 Folder Structure, Before and After

January 8, 2016January 7, 2016 Catzie Leave a comment

Hey! 🙂 This is a page I’m preparing quickly for developers who are used to the folder structure of Laravel 4 and older, just to serve as reference on where we can find things in Laravel 5 now. If like me, you are new to Laravel 5 but have developed apps using older Laravel versions, […]

How to install Laravel 5 in Windows with XAMPP

July 31, 2015November 9, 2015 Catzie Leave a comment

This short tutorial is based on my own installation of Laravel 5 on XAMPP that is running on Windows 7. In this Laravel 5 tutorial, you will need: Composer – click here for installation instructions command prompt Internet connection XAMPP There have been major changes in the following: New Folder Structure, Contracts, Route Cache, Route […]