Install Laravel 5.6 With PHP7.2 NGINX and PHP7.2-FPM on Ubuntu 16.04

Instruction.sh

# Install software-properties-common package to give us add-apt-repository package
sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common

# Install latest nginx version from community maintained ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable

# Update packages after adding ppa
sudo apt-get update

# Install nginx
sudo apt-get install -y nginx

# Check status
sudo service nginx

# Start nginx if it is not already running
sudo service nginx start

# Add Repository which gives us the latest php version 7.2
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

# Lets now check what is the latest PHP version available now after the repository is added
sudo apt-cache show php

# Lets now install php7.2 and some important modules which we will need.
sudo apt-get install php7.2-cli php7.2-fpm php7.2-curl php7.2-gd php7.2-mysql php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xml zip unzip

# Once done all basic modules will be installed now, lets check the version now
php -v

# Lets also check if the PHP7.2-FPM is running, if not start it
sudo service php7.2-fpm status

sudo service php7.2-fpm start  # (if the service isn't running already)

# Let set php ;fix_pathinfo=1 to fix_pathinfo=0
sudo nano /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini

# After set php fix_pathinfo restart php
sudo service php7.2-fpm restart

# Install Mysql server
sudo apt-get install mysql-server

# Secure Mysql installation
sudo mysql_secure_installation

# Open nginx config file
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

# Setting nginx server block
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/public;

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
        deny all;
    }  
}

# Test nginx configuration file
sudo nginx -t

# Then reload nginx for making change
sudo systemctl reload nginx

# Create swap file
sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

# Install Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

# Initial Git
cd /var/www/html/
git init 
git remote add production {ssh}
git pull

# Install vendor via composer
composer install --optimize-autoloader --no-dev

# Set permission for storage folder 
sudo chown -R :www-data /var/www/html
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/storage
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/bootstrap/cache

# Set permission for upload folder
sudo chown -R :www-data /var/www/html/public/folder

# Create Database
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE database_name DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
exit

# Create .env file
cp .env.example .env
nano .env

# Optimize Laravel 
php artisan key:generate
php artisan config:cache

# Migrate Database
php artisan migrate

# Install phpMyadmin (Optional)
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/phpmyadmin-or-alternative-for-php7-nginx-mysql-5-7-ubuntu-16-04 # tutorial
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

# phpMyadmin Nginx Block
location /phpmyadmin {
   root /usr/share/;
   index index.php index.html index.htm;
   location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$ {
      root /usr/share/;
      fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
      fastcgi_index index.php;
      include fastcgi_params;
   }
   location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
      root /usr/share/;
   }
}

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/html/public

# Set file upload size
sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
client_max_body_size 32M;
service nginx reload