Init Laravel, Composer with PHP-FPM installed and remove PHP

 1. Remove php version thats not php-fpm

        cd /etc/php/

        ll

     sudo apt-get purge php7.*

     https://askubuntu.com/questions/716661/how-do-i-remove-php-7-completely

2. cd into laravel folder && run composer update :

With PHP-FPM installed, you will encounter extension unfound error. With good old mod php, extension can be enabled in php.ini file with extension=XXX uncommented :

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-enable-and-disable-php-curl-module-with-apache-on-ubuntu-linux

With PHP-FPM extension must be manually installed:

MYSQL :

 apt-get install php7.<yourversion>-mysql

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39204990/php-startup-unable-to-load-dynamic-library-usr-lib-php-20151012-php-mysqli-dll




CURL

 apt-get install php7.<yourversion>-curl

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38800606/how-to-install-php-curl-in-ubuntu-16-04




MB string

sudo apt-get install php7.<yourversion>-mbstring

DOM extension :

sudo apt-get install php7.<yourversion>-xml

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/servers/how-do-i-install-the-dom-extension-for-php7

3. run composer install