Setting Up Laravel on Your Own Server: A DIY Guide

Originally published on bcd.dev

Before you go through the pain and challenge of configuring your own server you should perhaps consider Laravel forge. I trust they would know better how to deploy a laravel app.

For curious minded people, this is part of a bigger series Do it yourself series

Components

• webserver
  • nginx
• database
  • mysql
• php
• composer
• node
• npm / yarn
• scheduler
• firewall
• log
  • papertrail
• search
  • elastic search
  • algolia
• other third party services
  • redis

Basic build

recepee on an ubuntu server (22-10)

• mysql
• php
• composer
• node
• nginx
• queue

Requirements

• VPS Server
• Valid DNS record pointing to your server

Mysql

sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server

# Init project by creating a user with a dedicated database
name=$1
username=${2:-$name}
password=${3:-$name}
root_username=${4:-'root'}
root_password=${5:-''}
echo '' > tmp.sql
echo "CREATE USER $name@localhost identified by \"$password\";" >> tmp.sql
echo "CREATE DATABASE $name charset utf8 collate utf8_general_ci;" >> tmp.sql
echo "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON $name.* to $name@localhost;" >> tmp.sql
mysql -u$root_username -p$root_password -e "source tmp.sql"


mysql -u$root_username -p$root_password -e "CREATE DATABASE $name charset utf8 collate utf8_general_ci;"

Php

sudo apt install -y software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt update

# php with some extensions
PHP_VERSION=${1:-'8.2'}
sudo apt-get install -y "php$PHP_VERSION" php$PHP_VERSION-{common,cli,fpm,zip,xml,pdo,mysql,mbstring,tokenizer,ctype,curl,common,curl,gd,intl,sqlite3,xmlrpc,xsl,soap,opcache,readline,xdebug,bcmath}

Composer

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"

# For simplicity purpose, we are skipping the hash check. That is a crucial step you wouldn't want to skip when downloading stuff on the internet
# Hash below matches composer version 2.1.3
# php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '756890a4488ce9024fc62c56153228907f1545c228516cbf63f885e036d37e9a59d27d63f46af1d4d07ee0f76181c7d3') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Node

You can get node on their website but I prefer getting specific version from node version manager (nvm)

version=${1:-'20'}
echo "Installing nvm + node $version"
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
nvm install $version
# Optional but I like yarn so here we go
nvm exec $version npm i yarn -g

Nginx

# Making sure apache is not installed to avoid conflict on port 80
sudo apt-get remove -y apache
sudo apt-get install -y nginx
rm /etc/nginx/sites-available/default  /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default 

name=$1 # site.domain
webroot=${3:-"/var/www/vhosts/$name"}
mkdir -p $webroot
touch "/etc/nginx/sites-available/$name.conf"
ln -s "/etc/nginx/sites-available/$name.conf" "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/$name.conf"
cat >> "/etc/nginx/sites-available/$name.conf" 



<h4>
  
  
  Secure traffic using HTTPS
</h4>

<p>At this point we are running a web server on port 80. However everyone can see the content flowing through the networking. Welcome https.<br>
</p>

<pre class="brush:php;toolbar:false">domain=$1
email=${2:-"your@email.com"}
sudo apt-get install -y python3-certbot-nginx


# manual
# certbot certonly -a manual --rsa-key-size 4096 --email $email -d $domain -d www.$domain

# auto
## With base nginx config
certbot certonly --nginx --rsa-key-size 4096 --email $email -d $domain -d www.$domain

When the steps above succeed you can carry on with nginx config for ssl. The following will redirect all non secure connection (80) to secure connection (443)

# Usage ./laravel.sh site.domain 8.2 ~/sites
## Dependencies: letsencrypt, php$php_version, php$php_version-fpm

# sudo apt-get install -y php$php_version php$php_version-fpm
name=$1 # site.domain
user=$2
php_version=${3:-'8.2'}
root=${4:-"/var/www/vhosts/$name"}
webroot=${5:-"/var/www/vhosts/$name/public"}
touch /etc/nginx/sites-available/$name.conf
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/$name.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/$name.conf

mkdir -p /var/www/vhosts/$name/storage/logs
touch /var/www/vhosts/$name/storage/logs/error.log
touch /var/www/vhosts/$name/storage/logs/access.log

cat >> /etc/nginx/sites-available/$name.conf > /etc/php/$php_version/cli/php.ini 



<h5>
  
  
  Auto renew certificate
</h5>



<pre class="brush:php;toolbar:false"># DISCLAIMER: it is safer to edit cron file using crontab dedicated command
# That being see given this is a script we likely want to have automated
/var/spool/cron/crontabs

## cron job to auto renew every 3 months for you
crontab -e
# 0 0 1 */3 * /usr/bin/certbot renew --quiet

## I saw people doing it monthly
# 0 0 1 * *

Queue

#! /bin/bash
user=${0:-$(USER)}
root_dir="/home/$user/www/"
processes=4
sudo apt get install -y supervisor
cat >> /etc/supervisor/conf.d/laravel-worker.conf 



<h2>
  
  
  Conclusion
</h2>

<p>No conclusion as this is a starting point only but gets you an operational laravel app.<br>
Made a lot of arbitrary choices. Adapt for your usecase.<br>
Next up</p>

• automate script using orchestration (ie ansible)
• deploy using aws code deploy
• CI / CD pipeline from github
• tighting security with firewall policies
• monitoring
• load management / balancing

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