How to deploy Laravel

Apparently you already have some Laravel application and some server or shared hosting. Now you need to automate the process of deployment. Deployer will helps you in this as it ships with some ready to use recipes for Laravel based application.

Let's start with installation of Deployer. Run next commands in terminal:

curl -LO https://deployer.org/deployer.phar
mv deployer.phar /usr/local/bin/dep
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dep

Next, in your projects directory run:

dep init -t Laravel

Command will create deploy.php file for deploying Laravel. This file called recipe and based on built-in recipe laravel.php. It's contains some host configuration and example task.

First, we need to configure repository config of our application:

set('repository', 'git@github.com:user/project.git');

Second, configure host:

host('domain.org')
    ->set('deploy_path', '/var/www/html');

Make sure what ~/.ssh/config contains domain.org and you can connect to host thought ssh.

Another important parameter it is deploy_path, where you project will be located on remote host.

Let's do our first deploy:

dep deploy

If every think goes well, deployer will create next structure on remote host in deploy_path:

├── .dep
├── current -> releases/1
├── releases
│?? └── 1
└── shared
    ├── .env
    └── storage

releases dir contains deploy releases of Laravel application,
shared dir contains .env config and storage which will be symlinked to each release,
current is symlink to last release,
.dep dir contains special metadata for deployer (releases log, deploy.log file, etc).

Configure you server to serve files from current. For example if you are using nginx next:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name domain.org;

  root /var/www/html/current/public;

  location / {
    try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$args;
  }
}

Now you will be able to serve you laravel project:

Laravel App

If you want to automatically migrate database, Laravel recipe ships with artisan:migrate task. Add this lines to your deploy.php:

after('deploy:update_code', 'artisan:migrate');

More about configuration and task declarations in our documentation.

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