ubuntu-laravel-setup.md

Ubuntu Laravel Setup

Variables Used:

• {{ENDPOINT}}

The endpoint used for project. e.g. api.xyz.com

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One Time Server Setup

• Install PHP:

1. sudo LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install apache2
4. sudo apt-get install gzip
5. sudo apt-get install php7.3
6. sudo apt install zip unzip php7.3-zip

• Install PHP Plugins

1. sudo apt-get install php7.3-curl
2. sudo phpenmod curl
3. sudo apt-get install php7.3-xmlrpc
4. sudo phpenmod xmlrpc
5. sudo apt-get install php7.3-mbstring
6. sudo phpenmod mbstring
7. sudo apt-get install php7.3-dom
8. sudo phpenmod dom
9. sudo apt-get install php7.3-gd
10. sudo phpenmod gd
11. sudo apt-get install php7.3-mysql

• Configure PHP upload size

1. sudo nano /etc/php/7.3/apache2/php.ini

Set the following variables as required.

upload_max_filesize = 10M
post_max_size = 10M

• Install Composer

1. curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

• Fixing the environment issue in ubuntu

1. sudo nano /etc/environment

Paste the following lines:

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

• Apache Restart

1. sudo a2enmod rewrite
2. sudo service apache2 restart

• Create Groups and add Users

1. sudo groupadd htmlowners
2. sudo usermod -a -G htmlowners ubuntu
3. sudo usermod -a -G htmlowners www-data

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Per-Project Setup

• Make Directory on server

1. cd /var/www
2. sudo mkdir {{ENDPOINT}}

• Change User and group of directory

1. sudo chown -R ubuntu {{ENDPOINT}}

• Beanstalk Account Setup

1. Create Account
2. Create Repository
3. Copy your ssh key to beanstalk
4. copy beanstalk's ssh key on clipboard
5. sudo nano ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
6. paste the copied ssh key from beanstalk here.
7. Deploy code from beanstalk

• Create Virtual Host

1. cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
2. sudo nano {{ENDPOINT}}.conf
3. Configure and save Sample File Here
4. sudo a2ensite {{ENDPOINT}}.conf
5. sudo service apache2 restart

• Composer Install in Project

1. cd /var/www/{{ENDPOINT}}
2. composer install

• Directory Permissions

below are to be run from {{ENDPOINT}} directory

1. sudo chown -R ubuntu:htmlowners storage
2. sudo chown -R ubuntu:htmlowners bootstrap/cache
3. sudo chmod -R g+s storage
4. sudo chmod -R g+s bootstrap/cache
5. sudo chmod -R u+s storage
6. sudo chmod -R u+s bootstrap/cache
7. sudo find storage -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
8. sudo find storage -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
9. sudo find bootstrap/cache -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
10. sudo find bootstrap/cache -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

below are to be run from /var/www directory

1. sudo find {{ENDPOINT}} -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
2. sudo find {{ENDPOINT}} -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

• ENV Setup (Changes project to project)

Video Casts

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