README

A blogging engine built on Laravel 5.1.

Homestead local dev instructions

If you prefer to use Homestead over Docker, you can find instructions on the Laravel website.

Docker local dev instructions

If you don't yet have Docker installed, install it according to the Docker website.

After you have Docker installed, this command will get you started:

docker-compose up

Dependency installation and configuration

Next, you'll need to run these commands, in order:

cp .env.example .env
composer install
npm install (or, better yet, yarn)
bower install
gulp
docker exec monkblogphp_app_1 php artisan key:generate
docker exec monkblogphp_app_1 php artisan migrate
docker exec monkblogphp_app_1 php artisan db:seed

Adding your first admin user

Add an admin user by using the following console command:

php artisan user:generate

If you want to run it through a Docker container, do it like this:

docker exec -it monkblogphp_app_1 php artisan user:generate

Admin Interface

Access the admin interface via /admin on your site.

License

The Monk blog engine is licensed under the MIT license

The Laravel framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license