Installation of Laravel on Ubuntu 16 server

udemy-course.sh

#
# Requirements:
#   - Ubuntu server
#   - Root password for ubuntu server

# ssh into the server from local computer

ssh root@{server_name or server_ip_address}

#Updating ubuntu base packages

sudo apt-get update

#Installing apache2 on server

sudo apt-get install apache2

#Enabling mod rewrite, so laravel can rewrite .htaccess configurations
sudo a2enmod rewrite

#Apache service restart
sudo service apache2 restart

#Installing mysql on ubuntu
sudo apt-get install mysql-server

#securing mysql installation
sudo mysql_secure_installation

#Installing php and all required php extensions for laravel
sudo apt-get install php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mbstring php7.0-zip php7.0-xml php7.0-mysql

#Installing composer on ubuntu
sudo curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

#get into directory for laravel installation
cd /var/www/html

#Installing laravel blank project
composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist project

#Making laravel directories writable
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/project/storage
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/project/bootstrap/cache
##########-->edited --> run this command, mentioned in second video
chmod -R o+w project/storage

#Configuring a new virtual host for laravel app
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
sudo cp 000-default.conf project.conf

#Open up text editor and edit file
sudo nano project.conf

#
#<VirtualHost *:80>
#       ServerName server_ip
#       ServerAdmin server_admin_account
#       DocumentRoot /var/www/html/project/public
#       <Directory "/var/www/html/project">
#               AllowOverride All
#       </Directory>
#
#       ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
#       CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
#
#</VirtualHost>
#

#enable newly created virtual host
sudo a2ensite project.conf
#disable default conf file
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
#Reload apache
sudo service apache2 restart


#logging into mysql
mysql -u root -p'yourpassword'

#create new mysql database
CREATE DATABASE udemy-forum;

#setting up git hooks
cd /var
mkdir repo
cd repo

mkdir site.git && cd site.git
git init --bare
cd hooks
sudo nano post-receive

#insert git hook into the post-receive file
#   #!/bin/sh
#   git --work-tree=/var/www/html/project --git-dir=/var/repo/site.git checkout -f

#giving permission to post-receive file , so it can move files around
sudo chmod +x post-receive







#local machine git commands - add remote
git remote add production ssh://root@{server_ip}/var/repo/site.git

#push to master
git push production master

#LARAVEL CONFIGURATIONS
cp .env.example .env

#editing .env file
sudo nano .env 

#artisan commands to run
php artisan config:cache
php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed


#DONE !! 
exit