Installation Requirements:

  1. PHP 7.1
  2. Composer

Installing Zest is very simple. First, ensure you have the right PHP version and Composer installed, then in your command prompt run:

$ composer create-project softhub99/zest blog

The above command will create a new Zest project inside a new folder name blog, then:

$ cd blog

and then run

$ composer update

Local Development With VirtualHost

Running Your Project With VirtualHost

    <VirtualHost *:80>

    DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/blog/public"

    ServerName example.com

    </VirtualHost>

Restart Apache $ service httpd restsart

Navigate to http://example.com, you should be able to view the app.

Running Your Project Without VirtualHostif you choose to run your project without VirtualHost, So you have to access it with http://localhost/blog/public then