Zero-downtime Laravel deployment in 5 minutes

❡Checklist

❡Set up Laravel Deployer

❑  Go to your application folder
❑  composer require lorisleiva/laravel-deployer
❑  php artisan deploy:init
❑  php artisan deploy

❡Ensure your server can communicate with GitHub

• If your server don’t have a SSH key, create one:
  ❑  ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"
  ❑  eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
  ❑  ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
• If your server don’t have github.com in its known_hosts:
  ❑  Deploy using the git_tty option.
  ❑  php artisan deploy -o git_tty=true

❡Set up your production environment

❑  php artisan ssh
❑  cp .env.example .env
❑  php artisan key:generate
❑  vim .env and configure your production environment.
❑  exit
❑  php artisan deploy

❡Update nginx configurations

❑  vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/mydomain.com
❑  Point the root folder to the current/public directory.
❑  service nginx restart && service php7.2-fpm reload