Being asked in interviews how to deploy Laravel applications is a very common question for many Laravel developers. This article explains how to deploy and configure quickly and easily.
Before deploying your Laravel application, you need to ensure that the server has all the requirements required for the Laravel environment installed. These requirements can be found on the official Laravel website and include PHP, MySQL, and more.
After installing Git on the server, you can clone the Laravel application repository from your GitHub account. Clone the repository using the following command:
$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPOSITORY
After cloning the repository of your Laravel application, you need to install the necessary dependencies. Run the following command in the application directory:
$ composer install
This command will automatically install all necessary dependencies and extension packages. Also, if you are using Laravel 5.5 or higher, you do not need to run this command because Laravel already handles dependency installation automatically using the Composer autoloading mechanism.
You need to cache Laravel's configuration to improve application performance and protect your application. Run the following command in the application directory:
$ php artisan config:cache
Laravel applications require some environment variables to run. You can find the .env.example
file in the root directory of your Laravel application. Copy the .env.example
file and name it .env
. Open the .env
file and add the variables and values you need.
After deploying your Laravel application, you need to run migrations to create the database tables. In the application directory, run the following command:
$ php artisan migrate
The last step is to configure your Laravel application to the web server. You can configure your web server using Apache or Nginx. A detailed explanation of this part is beyond the scope of this article, but the official Laravel website provides detailed instructions.
If you are using Laravel 5.4 or newer, you can use Artisan, the built-in web server. In the application directory, run the following command:
$ php artisan serve
After running this command, your application should be accessible at http://localhost:8000
.
Conclusion
The above are the simple steps to deploy a Laravel application. During the interview, if you face this problem, simply deploy the Laravel application by following the steps above and the problem will be solved.
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