Installation of Laravel

According to documentation you just have the 5.3.7 of php version and the MCrypt extension enabled

  

The Laravel framework has a few system requirements:

     

PHP > = 5.3.7

     

MCrypt PHP Extension

     

As of PHP 5.5, some OS distributions may require you to manually   install the PHP JSON extension. When using Ubuntu, this can be done   via apt-get install php5-json.

Yes, it is possible.

At the moment, I'm developing an application with Laravel 4, and the client has provided me access to shared hosting in "HostGator".

I had to enable the correct version of PHP in the provider (the default is 5.2) - this was done via .htaccess

I'm developing locally using Git and Composer , typically. I created a Git repository on the free plane of Beanstalk (and named it local remote beanstalk), and set there a deploy via FTP.

Locally, I created a branch named "deploy", where I removed the vendor directory from .gitignore , so that the vendor folders enter the repository.

Then, after testing my code well, and doing the commit , with a simple command ...

git push beanstalk deploy

... Here's what:

• I maintain an updated remote repository,
• and have the site updated automatically.

Beanstalk deploy uploads the modified files, automatically, via FTP. Jewelry!

You can install Laravel on any machine using the command:

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

If composer is not globally available, you can download it to the current folder to install by composer.phar , like this:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Or, in case you do not have curl :

php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php

If you still can not install, you can build on your local machine and deploy to another machine through Capifony (which can transfer files via rsync ), for example.