In Laravel 8, there is new package available called https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/sail.

We use this to run the site locally, and test it.

All you need is to install https://www.docker.com/ in your compute.

After that, open the code and execute the command

./vendor/bin/sail up

One thing we needed to change in our .env was

```text DB_HOST=mysql

```text

DB_HOST=mysql

Option 1: Install via web UI

Then open the site on localhost, and the install window should appear.

Option 2: Install via CMD

After you have setup the .env and sail is running, open new terminal - command line and navigate to the project.

execute

sail artisan migrate --fresh --seed

This will setup the database.

Then execute / run

cd storage
touch installed

This should create empty file in storage, to let the system know that the project is installed. Then open the site on localhost. You should see the site now