Complete Guide

Deploy any Laravel App in AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Using AWS EC2 + RDS (Ubuntu, MySQL RDS)

Monday, April 19, 2021 (MDT)

Author: Emad Zaamout
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Deploying Laravel applications the correct way in 10 Steps using AWS.

In this tutorial we will cover

Domain Registration
Elastic IP Address
Security Groups
Launching RDS instance (For MySQL DB)
Launching EC2 Linux Ubuntu Instance
Requirements Gathering & Preparations
Importing Laravel Project & Setting up folder permissions
Installing & configuring Apache2, Installing Composer & Dependencies
SSL Certification using Certbot
[Optional] CloudWatch & Automated Notifications

Commands

Connect to EC2 Instance using SSH & PEM file.

ssh -i {pem file} {user}@{ip address}

Connect to your RDS MySQL Server.

mysql -h {rds_endpoint} -P 3306 -u admin -p

MySQL - Show Database

SHOW Databas;

MySQL - Create Database

CREATE DATABASE {db-name};

Git initialize local repository and configure user name and email


          git init
          git config --global user.email "support@ahtcloud.com"
          git config --global user.name "Emad Zaamout"

Git configure remote origin


          git remote add origin {bitbucket-repositry-url}

Git force push local changes and track remote origin master branch


          git push -u -f origin master

Git Pull your project


          git pull {bitbucket repository}

Laravel Ubuntu Linux Server Setup


          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
          sudo apt-get install apache2
          sudo apt-get install software-properties-commo
          sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
          sudo apt update
          sudo apt-get install php7.4
          sudo apt install php-curl php-cli php-mbstring git unzip  php7.4-mysql php7.4-dom php7.4-xml php7.4-xmlwriter phpunit php-mbstring php-xml
          sudo apt install python3-certbot-apache

Install Composer


          php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
          php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'c31c1e292ad7be5f49291169c0ac8f683499edddcfd4e42232982d0fd193004208a58ff6f353fde0012d35fdd72bc394') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
          php composer-setup.php
          php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

Move composer.phar to bin/composer to make composer command executable


          sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/

Laravel Setup on Production Server


          php artisan migrate
          php artisan key:generate

Correct Laravel Folder Permissions


          sudo chown -R www-data storage
          sudo chown -R www-data storage/framework
          sudo chmod g+w -R storage
          sudo chmod g+w -R storage/framework
          sudo chmod g+w -R storage/framework/sessions/
          sudo chmod g+w -R storage/logs/

Create Apache2 Virtual Host configuration file for your project.


          <VirtualHost *:80>
          ServerAdmin support@ahtcloud.com
          ServerName greencleaningservices.ca
       ServerAlias www.greencleaningservices.ca
          DocumentRoot /var/www/greencleaningservices/public

       ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
          CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

          <Directory /var/www/greencleaningservices>
              Require all granted
              AllowOverride All
              Options Indexes Multiviews FollowSymLinks
              </Directory>
          </VirtualHost>

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