@scottalanmiller said in Installing Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04:

@Pete-S said in Installing Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04:

@Pete-S said in Installing Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04:

@Pete-S said in Installing Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04:

OK, if you are not running apache or nginx, you should install the php-cli package instead.

So that seems to get installed anyway as a dependency on its own.

Yes, it does. But by using the php package and not php-cli, you probably got apache installed on your system as well - by dependencies.

You could find out by running: apt list --installed | grep apache

Or systemctl status apache2 to see if it's running.

Even if it was, Laravel uses Artisan's server.

I'm guessing they are invoking php's built-in webserver.

Regardless, the point is that if you swap php to php-cli in your install guide you don't get apache and other stuff you don't need.

Thanks I will check this out

You mean it's not a prefab, disposable housing solution for the homeless? (what else would you think when you heard "vagrant box"?)