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Go to **/etc/hosts** file and add the virtual host URL there there have already some URL **Eg:** you want to create **test.local** virtual host using **test.local** URL in your web browser you want to run a particular project `cd /etc` open the host file with text editor below I am using nano editor for file editing 'nano hosts' 127.0.0.1  test.local ( paste that line in hosts file ) create the config file inside the site-available folder normally its like '/etc/apache2/sites-available' `nano test.conf` Eg: We want to run test.local on web browser and it's run /home/xxxx/Documents/projects/test folder code `<VirtualHost *:80>         ServerName test.local         ServerAlias test.local         DirectoryIndex index.php index.html         DocumentRoot /home/xxxx/Documents/projects/test         <Directory /home/xxxx/Documents/projects/test> ...

Many time it's hard to work in terminal so if we want to open the file in default system text editor using terminal command so we use Eg: if we want to open the rnd.conf file so the command is `xdg-open rnd.conf`

Some time we need to make free some server port in linux you can do with the simple below command `kill -9 $(lsof -i tcp:5000 -t)`

If you want to remove the mapping from laravel public folder and run the application from the main directory there are below easy step which you use and got the success to run the laravel from main directory. 1. Change the server.php to index.php When I run the `php artisan server` command it procced the server using server.php file so we just do change it as index.php 2. Copy the .htaccess from the public to the main directory For redirection, we need  .htaccess file so we just copy the file from public folder to the main directory