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Deploying Laravel Apps on CentOS 7 Server

Sep 12 2018

Main Steps

access with ssh
Setup Apache, PHP 7.x, mysql and composer
Place Application(s) in /var/www/html
Change files permissions and owners as the following:

sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/{project}/storage
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/{project}/storage

Your Application still not allowed to edit ‘storage/logs/laravel.log’ because of selinux, to solve it:

sudo chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t storage

Create mysql db and user:

CREATE USER 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
CREATE DATABASE database;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database.* TO 'user'@'localhost';

From Applications folder, install dependencies

composer install --optimize-autoloader --no-dev

Dont use sudo.

Create .env

nano .env.example

then save the new file as .env

Setup Your application

php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed
php artisan passport:install
php artisan config:cache

consider the front-end as well to be compiled properly for production. more

Create Virtual host for each application

sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhost1.conf

add the following configration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/App1/public
    ServerName AppUrl.com

    <Directory /var/www/html/App1/public/>
        Options All
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I prefer adding each vhost in seperate file, although you can add them all together. more examples

Restart Apache

sudo service httpd restart

List all Virtual Hosts you have

httpd -S
apachectl -S

if using queue:

nohup php artisan queue:work --daemon &

Multithreading Server

Apache MPM (stands for Multi-Processing Module) to activate.

Edit MPM configration file

sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-mpm.conf

comment/uncomment lines as below:

#LoadModule mpm_prefork_module modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so
#LoadModule mpm_worker_module modules/mod_mpm_worker.so

LoadModule mpm_event_module modules/mod_mpm_event.so

Restart Apache

systemctl restart httpd

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