Installing Laravel on Infomaniak hosting

This guide is about Laravel, an open-source web framework written in PHP that adheres to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) principle. You can install it on shared Web hosting or on a Cloud Server by following the instructions in this guide.

Installing Laravel 8

Prerequisites

• Own web hosting with latest MySQL/MariaDB
• Site under recent PHP with proc_open activated
• Site folder that points to the /public folder of your Laravel application
• Create SSH access
• Create a database

Submitting the application via git

1. Command cdto directory
2. git cloneyour project

If the project is private and you have 2FA, you can use the Github token:

1. Create a token https://github.com/settings/tokens with the right rights (repo)
2. git cloneyour rest with https
3. Enter your username and token as password

Startup

1. Create the .env file with the correct information
2. composer install
3. php artisan key:generate
4. php artisan migrate:fresh --seed
5. php artisan storage:link

Optimization

• composer install --optimize-autoloader --no-dev
• php artisan config:cache
• php artisan route:cache
• php artisan view:cache

Deploy changes

Pause the site

php artisan down

Update the site

• git pull
• composer install
• php artisan migrate
• Restart FPM (optional)echo "" | sudo -S service php7.3-fpm reload
• Restart Queue (optional)php artisan queue:restart
• Clear cache (optional)php artisan cache:clear

Remount the site

php artisan up

Go further

To force https, add the following line to public/.htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on

RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

If you can't use Tinker, set .envthe following variable in the file (before clearing the cache):

XDG_CONFIG_HOME=./.psysh

To create a user manually with Tinker:

DB::table('users')->insert(['name'=>'MyUsername','email'=>'thisis@myemail.com','password'=>Hash::make('123456')])

And read the Laravel documentation https://laravel.com/docs/ , especially https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/deployment