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To set up:

• Create an copy of the .env.example file called .env and populate the below values:

  DB_HOST=localhost
  DB_DATABASE=homestead
  DB_USERNAME=homestead
  DB_PASSWORD=secret

Use the below commands to easily install Composer, PHP's Dependency Manager:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

• Execute composer install to install dependencies.
• Execute php artisan migrate to create tables.
• Execute php artisan db:seed to seed tables with sample data.
• Execute php artisan serve to run server.

Consider executing the following cURL request to test that the server is working on Port 8000:

curl -i -X GET "http://localhost:8000/api/v0.1/heartbeat"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 22:29:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.14
Cache-Control: no-cache
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Length: 17
Content-Type: application/json

{"response":"OK"}