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Did you setup the environment variables on the server?
Jul 16, 2015
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Things to take care after deploying
We are launching our application but seems like in Laravel 5, everything is cached or compiled. We upload PHP files but it doesn't reflect in the system like service files or repositories. What things to take care after deploying to Production environment?
I am pissed off after seeing that things are not working after I have uploaded the new file. I have cleared cache files and then ran clear:compiled. I did everything. Any help is appreciated.
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@Ruffles Yes. I have a .env file for that.
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.env file is for development, you have to set those vars on the server somewhere. Platforms like Heroku, Digital Ocean or Fortrabbit have a config vars / environment vars page for the app.
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@Ruffles I am already doing that with .env. I want to know what things should I have to take care after deployment like putting the server down, uploading the files, clearing cache, etc
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what doesnt work ?
@Ruffles you dont have to set env variables on the server. You can use .env file on production. It is better to set env vars but you dont have to.
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Well you haven't really said how you deploy your app but "upload files" tells me it's FTP or similar...
You need to do that (a lot of us use git to pull the files in, it's lovely). You then run composer install and do your migrations. If you have issues after that, please check any logs to see what went wrong...
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Yes, I did it using FTP client.
I didn't know about git pull. Do you use any tool for that?
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@dixitchopra Basically all my projects are in a git repo and I push it to my git server (or GitHub/similar) and then you can pull that repo in from your server or web hosting (if they allow git and composer).
Good series for git: https://laracasts.com/series/git-me-some-version-control
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- how do you deploy your applications ?
- did you use ftp ?
- or web file manager on cpanel ?
- or git ?
- what is the type of host you use ?
- shared hosting ?
- digital ocean ?
- heroku ?
- or some thing else like envoy or forage ?
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@AlnourAltegani I am currently using AWS. It will be expensive once we scale. I don't know which one is good.
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I don't no any thing about deploying to aws . can you tell me about the details to help ? can you access to the server by the ssh connection ?
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@AlnourAltegani I use FTP and I use AWS for hosting. They provide SSH connection as well. It's a private server.
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you need to access the server with ssh . then install composer on it . after installing composer you need to run
composer dump-autoload -o
and enter your project root folder and run
php artisan optimize --force
and this may fix your problem because laravel concatenate all important files in
bootstrap/cache/compiled.php
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Looks good @AlnourAltegani . Thanks a lot.
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I have Service Classes and it doesn't get refreshed on the server after compose dump-autoload or artisan optimize command. Any work around on this?
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