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Hello, I have been hosting a laravel website. When it was initially developed it size was just fine. But now after few months i want to make few changes i just go to file manager and compressed my Laravel application skipping storage and logs but still it is of more than 1GB in size. What should i check is there something i can delete ?
You might be storing something somewhere other than your storage directory. I would open your project root in your terminal and run du -sh * to get a summary of the size of each subdirectory, and from there drill down into which is using a lot of space.
@sutherland This is the output of the command you given as you can see app.zip which is the compressed file of whole project is of 1.4GIG
204K ../lcore/app 1.4G ../lcore/app.zip 4.0K ../lcore/artisan 32K ../lcore/bootstrap 4.0K ../lcore/composer.json 140K ../lcore/composer.lock 64K ../lcore/config 44K ../lcore/database 0 ../lcore/lcore 4.0K ../lcore/package.json 4.0K ../lcore/phpunit.xml 320K ../lcore/resources 24K ../lcore/routes 4.0K ../lcore/server.php 32M ../lcore/storage 28K ../lcore/tests 49M ../lcore/vendor 4.0K ../lcore/webpack.mix.js 212K ../lcore/yarn.lock
What is that app.zip file?
@jlrdw This is the file in which the whole project is compressed. After compressing this file i posted this post.
that's not showing your /public dir. Do you have a lot in there? Images maybe?
Are you running a process that creates that zip file? What does it look like? You might be including the previous zip in your new zip, making the result grow every time it gets zipped.
@Cronix The public folder is in public_html which is not included in this compressed file. I have separated both the frontend and backend of my laravel
@sutherland now i am not running any process that creates zip file. This one is created manually using cPanel's file manager. Secondly i posted all the directory and file sizes there is no such directory which has a size of more than 50MB.
Delete the zip file and run
du -chd 1 . | sort -h
in the root directory of your project. Vendor and node_modules can get pretty big, git as well.
I execute this command but no result returned.
You're not compressing the vendor folder are you? That is easily recreated.
@jlrdw I am compressing the vendor folder.
Do you have hidden folders, eg a git repository?
@Snapey I don't think so, Because this project was uploaded from my local PC and there is no such git and hidden files. Is there is any way to check if there is any hidden folder
run du -d 2 -k
i found the problem my laravel had some symlink to public_html and in public_html i have some subdomains which caused such a huge size zip file thanks everyone for the help
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