Install PHP Composer and Laravel on WSL in 10 minutes

Install PHP and Composer

First install PHP

# Install the php latest stable
sudo apt install php -y

# Check if success with
php -v

Then install composer

You can also follow this link for actual installation

Composer

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'e21205b207c3ff031906575712edab6f13eb0b361f2085f1f1237b7126d785e826a450292b6cfd1d64d92e6563bbde02') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

You can check the composer is installing successfully by calling the command

composer

Install Laravel

Go to some directory then create the new project by the following command

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

If everything is okay, then we run to serve the server

php artisan serve

Problem: Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages

Now you need php extra package for XML and Curl

sudo apt install php-xml -y
sudo apt install php-curl -y

then run the composer install again

# At Laravel project directory

composer install

then serve and visit http://localhost:8000

php artisan serve