Launching laravel on a VPS

Just read upon those subjects in general, make sure you install Nginx/Apache PHP and MySQL/MariaDB.

Configuration is just a case of using google, with a few exceptions.

Thanks @cruorzy

Would be helpful if you could point to any course/article ( if you have any ) which walks-through this process in detail. Google is available, however, I prefer courses/articles ( in most cases leads to faster results )

@QWERTYNIK - Look at the digital ocean blog :)

Example : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-laravel-application-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-16-04

@vincentkos

Thanks will go over the steps there. Did you use those steps for setup?

@QWERTYNIK - No, server management is a pain for me so I just use Laravel Forge with a DO server.

Ah, cool!

Can you share your OS which you are going to use? And what kind of webserver are you going to use?

@esorone I plan on using Ubuntu and AWS ec-2 or lightsail. LEMP stack mostly

Then I would start to install a vanilla Ubuntu on AWS. After this I would follow a tutorial.

@Qwertynik showed a tutorial of 16.04 but on https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-ubuntu-18-04 you find a newer version

I used the same steps, to get my VPS going. (Different VPS provider)

The only "difficult" part for me was creating the server block level (server blocks are similar to Apache's virtual hosts). This due the fact I was used to use Apache and this was my first nginx.

If you have any questions, just let us know.

@esorone

Sure thanks, I will go over the article and set up the server, will let you know if I have any questions.

Other than changing some properties in the .env file in laravel app, are there any other laravel specific changes which need to be done when making an application live?

Maybe you run into a .htaccess problem, sometimes this happens to me. But I do remember if it was on Nginx or Apache

Good luck

@qwertynik

or at times the storage folder is not writable and you have to assign 0777 permissions

Thanks @esorone @douglasakula. Finally, we had a DevOPS handle the deployment for us :)

Wow. Hope its not after 1 year :)

Glad you were sorted though