The fastest and simplest way of installing Laravel is via composer command. From the laravel docs (http://laravel.com/docs/quick), it shows that we can install it with this:
composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name --prefer-dist
But, when you run the above command, it will grab the latest version of Laravel. How can I control it if I want to install latest version of 4.0.x? Or, 4.1.x when 4.2 is out?
From the composer help create-project command
The create-project command creates a new project from a given
package into a new directory. If executed without params and in a directory with a composer.json file it installs the packages for the current project.
You can use this command to bootstrap new projects or setup a clean
version-controlled installation for developers of your project.[version]
You can also specify the version with the package name using = or : as separator.
To install unstable packages, either specify the version you want, or use the --stability=dev (where dev can be one of RC, beta, alpha or dev).
This command works:
composer create-project laravel/laravel=4.1.27 your-project-name --prefer-dist
This works with the * notation.
composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name dev-develop
laravel/laravel=5.8.38 which is a perfectly valid version and got Could not find package laravel/laravel with version 5.8.38. I dropped .38 and it went through.
composer create-project laravel/laravel=^8 your-project-name --prefer-dist
Try via Composer Create-Project
You may also install Laravel by issuing the Composer create-project command in your terminal:
composer create-project laravel/laravel {directory} "5.0.*" --prefer-dist
Have a look:
Syntax (Via Composer):
composer create-project laravel/laravel {directory} 4.2 --prefer-dist
Example:
composer create-project laravel/laravel my_laravel_dir 4.2
Where 4.2 is your version of laravel.
Note: It will take the latest version of Laravel automatically If you will not provide any version.
composer create-project laravel/laravel=4.1.27 your-project-name --prefer-dist
And then you probably need to install all of vendor packages, so
composer install
If you want to use a stable version of your preferred Laravel version of choice, use:
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel project-name "5.5.*"
That will pick out the most recent or best update of version 5.5.* (5.5.28)
Installing specific laravel version with composer create-project
composer global require laravel/installer
Then, if you want install specific version then just edit version values "6." , "5.8."
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel Projectname "6.*"
Run Local Development Server
php artisan serve
To install specific version of laravel try this & simply command on terminal
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel:5.5.0 {dir-name}
