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Shaikh Al Amin
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Linux server setup with nginx for Laravel and MySQL

#laravel #nginx #mysql #vps

LEMP Stack Setup - Ubuntu

*SSH into the server first: *

*======Install Nginx ====== : *

sudo apt update sudo apt install nginx sudo ufw status sudo ufw app list i. sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full' ii. sudo ufw allow 'OpenSSH' Check Ip Address ip addr show curl icanhazip.com
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*====Install MySQL==== : *

CREATE USER 'blog'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password_here'; GRANT ALL ON blog.* TO 'blog'@'localhost'; sudo apt install mysql-server sudo mysql_secure_installation Add new Database and User 1. sudo mysql 2. CREATE DATABASE example_database; 3. CREATE USER 'username'@'%' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password'; 4. GRANT ALL ON example_database.* TO 'username'@'%'; 5. mysql -u example_user -p 6. SHOW DATABASES;
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*=====Install PHP 8.1====== : *
Update machine

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y #Install dependencies sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https -y #Add the PPA sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php -y #Now to install PHP 8.1 FPM and its modules sudo apt install php8.1-fpm php8.1-common php8.1-mysql php8.1-xml php8.1-xmlrpc php8.1-curl php8.1-gd php8.1-imagick php8.1-cli php8.1-dev php8.1-imap php8.1-mbstring php8.1-opcache php8.1-soap php8.1-zip php8.1-intl php8.1-bcmath
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*=====Install Git===== : *
apt install git

*====Install Composer==== : *

1. sudo apt install wget php-cli php-zip unzip 2. php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" 3. HASH="$(wget -q -O - https://composer.github.io/installer.sig)" 4. php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '$HASH') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;" 5. sudo php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer 6. composer
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=====Deploy Laravel ==== :

  1. Direct file upload
  2. Using git

*Using git : *

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "username@something.com" cat ~/root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub git clone ssh_project_url project cd project composer install cp .env.example .env php artisan key:generate nano .env chown -R www-data:www-data storage/ chown -R www-data:www-data bootstrap/ php artisan migrate
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*=====server setup======= : *

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available nano default server { server_name domainname,www.domainname.com; root /var/www/html/project/public; add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN"; add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"; add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"; index index.html index.htm index.php; charset utf-8; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string; } location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; } location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; } error_page 404 /index.php; location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* { deny all; } }
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Install certbot:
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sudo ufw status sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full' sudo ufw delete allow 'Nginx HTTP' sudo ufw status sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx sudo certbot --nginx -d domain.com -d www.domain.com
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