It has been almost 2 years since the last update of Laragon. However, the core of Laragon is so powerful and stable that you can control/update everything yourself.
Today, I am happy to announce the release of Laragon 5.0. This release added "Quick Linux server" feature in Menu > Quick Linux server
Released date: Sunday, 2021-05-23
Added Quick Linux server
Added bitmana CLI
Better cmder integration, allows upgrading cmder from cmder creator,
@daxgames - thank you.
Fixed some minor issues
Updated default packages: PHP 7.4.19, Apache 2.4.47, Node.js 14
If you need to upgrade, please check:
https://forum.laragon.org/topic/2468/how-to-upgrade-to-laragon-5
Quick Linux server:
7 years ago I created Laragon as a modern development environment for Windows. Now, from Laragon 5, I will help you with Linux. I build Laragon for Windows but actually Linux is in my DNA as I architect and scale complex distributed microservices system with many production Kubernetes clusters distributed across the globe with 20+ Data Centers, 10,000+ containers, thousands of databases, ~100 microservices composed by different stacks (PHP, Java, Ruby, Node.js, Golang, Python) and various technologies for large scale and enterprise system (Kafka, Solr, ClickHouse,...)
This release of Laragon includes a tool calls bitmana which helps you create Linux servers extremely fast with very low cost (you can have a VPS with just $1/month and scale it effortlessly). It also helps us to operate our VPS servers easily with effortless control.
You can try it free yourself. Let me show how cool it is:
Register an accout at: https://app.bitmana.io
It is quick, only provide YOUR-EMAIL
Open Laragon's Terminal, and type:
bitmana link YOUR-EMAIL
Input your password and press Enter
It will authenticate your system with bitmana.io
Create a LAMP server:
bitmana cs lamp
lamp = LAMP stack. Just a few seconds, you have a server with Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, composer
Note your NODE_ID -> Id: xxxxx
By default, your server is secure, to expose port 80, type:
bitmana expose NODE_ID 80
Note the exposed Url
Browser the exposed Url, you'll see something like this:
Welcome to Bitmana!
If you see this page, the web server is successfully installed and working.
It's cool, huh.
Because your system is authenticated with bitmana.io, you can also ssh to the server with ease: bitmana ssh NODE_ID
or run commands without accessing your server bitmana exec NODE_ID "service apache2 status; composer --version"
or type bitmana info to list your servers.
You can type: bitmana for more commands.