deploy laravel application to production server

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#!/bin/bash
# inspiration [url]http://blog.rjmetrics.com/simple-deploy-script-for-php-applications/[/url]
# unzipping files [url]http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/124/[/url]

# todo: does current exist? does releases exist?

APP_NAME=clouddueling
DEPLOY_SERVER=
DEPLOY_PATH=/var/www/html
DEPLOY_USER=

CURRENT_DIR=$DEPLOY_PATH/$APP_NAME/current
RELEASE_NAME=`date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S"`
CURRENT_RELEASE=$DEPLOY_PATH/$APP_NAME/releases/$RELEASE_NAME

echo "Emptying storage cache and views.\n"
rm -f storage/cache/*
rm -f storage/views/*

echo "Compressing code.\n"
tar -czf ../$RELEASE_NAME.tar.gz ./

echo "Creating release folder: $RELEASE_NAME.\n"
ssh -t $DEPLOY_USER@$DEPLOY_SERVER "cd $DEPLOY_PATH/$APP_NAME/releases &&
    mkdir $RELEASE_NAME"

echo "Uploading code to server.\n"
scp -i ~/path/to/keys.pem ../$RELEASE_NAME.tar.gz $DEPLOY_USER@$DEPLOY_SERVER:$DEPLOY_PATH/$APP_NAME/releases/$RELEASE_NAME

echo "Extracting code into release folder.\n"
ssh -t $DEPLOY_USER@$DEPLOY_SERVER "cd $DEPLOY_PATH/$APP_NAME/releases/$RELEASE_NAME &&
    gzip -d < $RELEASE_NAME.tar.gz | tar xf - &&
    echo 'Updating storage permissions.' &&
    sudo chmod -R 777 storage &&
    echo 'Removing server compressed code.' &&
    rm $RELEASE_NAME.tar.gz &&
    echo 'Diverting traffic to new release.' &&
    cd ../../ &&
    ln -nsf releases/$RELEASE_NAME current"

echo "Removing local compressed code.\n"
rm ../$RELEASE_NAME.tar.gz

echo "Laravel deployment complete."