How To Setup Configure Digitalocean Hosting Server For Laravel

After Create Droplet Server on Digital Ocean .

1 - Login To Your server using shell.

 ssh root@ip_address

2- Install PHP and extensions required to LARAVEL

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

apt-get update

apt-get install php7.4 

apt-get install php-pear php7.4-curl php7.4-dev

apt-get install php7.4-gd php7.4-mbstring php7.4-zip

apt-get install php7.4-mysql php7.4-xml

3- Install MYSQL Server

<!-- Update apt -->
sudo apt update

• install mysql-server package : sudo apt install mysql-server

4- Configuring MySQL

• sudo mysql
• ALTER USER ‘root’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'set_password';
• After that exit;
• Restart MySQL : sudo service mysql start
• After Restart Check Your Connection in Database : systemctl status mysql.service
• After that , lets start to make DATABASE
• sudo mysql or sudo mysql -u root -p
• create database name_database;
• For Show All DatabasesSHOW DATABASES;

5- Install Laravel From git using shell

• apt install composer
• cd /var/www
• git clone repo_project
• cd repo_project
• composer install
• Change Name File .env.example to .env : cp .env.example .env
• Login to file .env and update value for APP_URL & db_name & username & db_password vim .env
• After that close file and save config ESC SHIFT + :wq and enter
• Migrate table in your project and create key php artisan migrate & php artisan key:generate

6- Setup Apache Configuration

• After Login To ssh : cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
• sudo vim 000-default.conf
• Are you ready now to adjust your project files with the server ?

<VirtualHost*:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot/var/www/your_repo/public
<Directory/var/www/your_repo/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog$(APACHE_LOG_DIR)/error.log
CustomLog$(APACHE_LOG_DIR)/access.log combined
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.html index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

• After that close file and save config ESC SHIFT + :wq and enter

• Restart Apache sudo a2enmod rewrite

• systemctl restart apache2 OR sudo service apache2 restart

• issues you are expected to encounter :

  • cd /var/www/your_project
  • sudo chmod -R 777 storage
  • sudo chmod -R 777 public