Deploy Laravel on Digital Ocean

- Login Into Digital Ocean
   - Click On New project
   - Give it a name, description and purpose
   - Skip 'Move your resources' step
   - Click 'Get Started with Droplet'
   - Go to 'Market Place' Tab 
   - Select LAMP Stack Image or Docker Image accodring to your requirements

- Creating SSH KEYS
   - On Local System Run ssh-keygen to generate a key
   - Give that key a name ('ivf1match' is the name I 'm giving it, You can give it any name you like)
   - Go to /home/username/.ssh
   - open ivf1match_key.pub file and copy that content
   - Navigate to Digital Ocean and paste that content 
   - Give that key a name and save it. 
   - Choose the hostname and create the droplet.
   
- Accessing Online Server using SSH

   - Open terminal > ssh root@ip_address_of_server
   - Install composer, git and php extensions on the server.
   - sudo apt-get install composer git
   - sudo apt-get install php7.2-curl php7.2-gd php7.2-json php7.2-mbstring php7.2-intl php7.2-mysql php7.2-xml php7.2-zip
   - Go to /var/www/html directory and clone the Github project
   - git clone https://www.github.com/myproject.git
   - Cd to project directory & Run composer install
  
- Configuring Mysql Database with Laravel
   
   - Run the following command to access MYSQL root user password
   - cat /root/.digitalocean_password
   - Copy that password
   - cp .env.example .env
   - vi .env
   
- Creating a new Database User
   
    - CREATE USER 'newuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
    - GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO 'newuser'@'localhost';
    - FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
    
   - change DB_USERNAME=newuser
   - php artisan migrate
   - Paste the copied password after DB_PASSWORD=

- Fixing Key & Permissions issues
   - chmod 777 -R storage
   - php artisan key:generate


- Fixing the URL Issues
   - sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
   - change the document root to your desired directory
   - e.g my project is in ivf1match directory
   - DocumentRoot /var/www/html/ivf1match/pubhlic
   - sudo a2disite 000-defualt.conf
   - sudo service apache2 restart
   - sudo a2ensite 000-default.conf
   - sudo service apache2 restart
   - sudo a2enmod rewrite
   - sudo service apache2 restart
   - Now vist the site and you are good to go!