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This is the fourth part of the Deploy Laravel 5.4 App on LEMP Stack (DigitalOcean Guide) . In the last post, I have shown how to prepare the server for Laravel application deployment. And in this post, I'm going to show how to setup the local machine for production deployment. Make sure that your local Laravel directory is under git version control before you continue. If there is a .git folder in your Laravel folder that means Git is initialized. You can use git log command to check the commit logs. You can learn more about Git from the official website . Following command add new remote and set up our server as a push location. Substitute the red text with your domain name or IP address. git remote add production ssh://root@ 196.0.0.1 /var/repo/site.git You can run git remote command to view a list of existing remotes. You can execute the following command to push it to the server. git push production master It will prompt you to enter the password.The pr...

This is a third part of the Deploy Laravel 5.4 App on LEMP Stack (DigitalOcean Guide) . In this post, I'm going to prepare the server for Laravel application deployment. Let's create a folder for our Laravel application. By default, NginX will look at the /var/www/ path to serve the files. In this folder let's create a folder called app. Open the following file to update the new path. Run the following command in your terminal. sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default Let's change the root line and add the public folder path. Change the following location section to add /index.php?$query_string; location / {                 # First attempt to serve request as file, then                 # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.              ...

This tutorial is the second part of the Deploy Laravel 5.4 App on LEMP Stack (DigitalOcean Guide) . Before I install LEMP stack, I am going to update the package installer. To do that run the following command in the terminal. It will grab the package list and update it. sudo apt-get update Install Nginx (Engine-X) Run the following command to install Nginx server. sudo apt-get install nginx   After the installation, you should be able to visit your IP address and it will show the Nginx default page. Install MySQL Run the following command to install MySQL on your server. sudo apt-get install mysql-server The above command will start the MySQL installation process. You will have to enter 'Y' and proceed. After few steps you will see the following screen. Enter root password and proceed. Default MySQL installation is famous for insecure. MySQL has a helper script to secure the MySQL installation. To run the script type the following command i...

This blog post teaches you how to set up Laravel onto a virtual private server (VPS) using LEMP stack (DigitalOcean). LEMP is an acronym that stands for Linux, Nginx (Engine-X), MySQL and PHP. The reason I chose to use LEMP with Laravel is that it seems to be the preferred stack among the Laravel community. You can use LAMP stack as well, but when running smaller server instances like we are (with 512mb RAM), it has shown that Nginx performs better with limited resources. Why DigitalOcean? You can host it any VPS server that you wish. In this tutorial, I set up the server through SSH into VPS instance. But there are few reasons to choose DigitalOcean such as simple UI and minimalistic approach, SSD-based virtual machines, comprehensive documentation, affordable pricing and community & ecosystem Support. I have used DigitalOcean in production, and it works great. If you would like to sign up using Busy Programmer's Guide, you will get $10 to get started, absolutely free. ...