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Laravel is one of the popular PHP framework now. There are many ways you can able to install the laravel framework. But the following are two important laravel installation methods

• Laravel Installer
• Composer

To setup Laravel, it requires following things in server

• PHP >= 5.6.4
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension

Laravel uses Composer to manage its dependencies. So, before installing Laravel, you have to install the Composer in your server.
 

Laravel Installer

Following is command to install `Laravel Installer` using composer

 composer global require "laravel/installer"  

Place the $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your $PATH for laravel executables.
Following is command to create project using Laravel Installer

 laravel new blog  

Composer

Following is command to create project using composer

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