This is an implementation of the work of Luca Bernardino at codeanchor.net, originally created in laravel 5.0, then upgraded to laravel 5.1 LTS.
There are a few changes, including the refactoring he talks about for AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers.php, in this tutorial: http://www.codeanchor.net/blog/email-activation-laravel/ .
I've also added a 'resend activation email' option and made use of the Lang class, so this can easily be ported to a new language.
To get up and running, after git cloning, first do (from the app root):
composer update
chmod -R 777 storage
cp .env.example .env
then make sure to set up your database values in .env:
DB_DATABASE=homestead
DB_USERNAME=homestead
DB_PASSWORD=secret
then run:
php artisan migrate
Then make sure your variables are set up in .env:
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=465
MAIL_USERNAME=user@gmail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=password
This should be fine if you've set up a gmail account to run with this.
Then sign up by going to your app.
Don't worry if /home doesn't work before you have a single user. It will work after you have at least one.