How to deploy laravel app on vps using Rocketeer

Just a simple google gave me this tutorial: https://mnshankar.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/using-rocketeer-for-easy-deployment-to-vps/

I have no experience with Rocketeer, but the tutorial looks fine to me ;)

@blackbird I have problem with enviorment variable in L4.2 , when I run on local it fine but when on server it showing error my database config are

        'mysql' => array(
            'driver'    => 'mysql',
            'host'      => getenv('DB_HOST'),
            'database'  => getenv('DB_NAME'),
            'username'  => getenv('DB_USERNAME'),
            'password'  => getenv('DB_PASSWORD'),
            'charset'   => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix'    => '',
        ),

Do you have a .env file on your server that defines values for each of your environment variables? If you're using git, .env files are usually excluded so may prefer to FTP the .env file to the server.

@Graham On my server it not I clone my repo from bitbucket and I not include .env file

If you don't have a .env file, where are you setting your environment variables on your VPS?

You will need someway to define environment variables and a specific .env file for your VPS might be the easiest way.

how????

Create a new .env file for your VPS and transfer it to the root of your project on your VPS (maybe via FTP).

You could change the git settings so that the .env file is managed using bitbucket but this is not considered to be a good security practice.

@Graham but in when I run locally it showing error on database line no 59 where my databse setting start how to fix set for local development local enviorment and for production it production enviornment?

Does rocketeer give you the option to share the .env file?

barryvdh mentions it here:

https://github.com/rocketeers/rocketeer/issues/224

Your .env for local development probably looks like this

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

Then your production .env looks the same, you only need to update the values of those variables

Thanks @Graham and @blackbird

I know this is a late response, but here is a tutorial that I wrote on this very subject.

https://dericcain.com/blog/deploying-laravel-5-apps-with-rocketeer

Hopefully it will help someone in the future.

@dericcain You changed your slug it seems, new one is https://dericcain.com/blog/deploying-laravel-5-apps-with-rocketeer and it's very helpful, thanks :)

@d0tt Thanks for the heads up! I edited my post.

@dericcain looks like it is gone altogether now =(

@coopers98 https://web.archive.org/web/20160909143437/https://dericcain.com/blog/deploying-laravel-5-apps-with-rocketeer