deployment.md

Deployment

Deploying a Laravel application is straightforward from a Ubuntu release. You can find tutorials online, for example written by DigitalOcean.

The usual dependencies are:

• PHP 7
• PHP-FPM
• Composer
• PHP XML
• PHP Mbstring

You will need to choose a database (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc.) and a webserver (Nginx, Apache).

Here is a minimal Nginx configuration:

server {
  listen 80;

  root /var/www/bulletins/public;

  index index.php;

  server_name bulletins.eig-forever.org;

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
    include fastcgi_params;                
    fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
  }
}

Finally, you can get free SSL certificates using Certbot.

With Docker

# Clone the project
git clone https://github.com/entrepreneur-interet-general/bulletins.git
cd bulletins
# Customize docker-compose.yml and config/projects.example.yml (it will be copied with this name)
# then start services
docker-compose up -d
# Initiate datababse
docker-compose exec php php artisan key:generate
docker-compose exec php touch database/database.sqlite
docker-compose exec php php artisan migrate:fresh --seed