How To Deploy Laravel Project on EC2 AWS .

In this Article , We will Learn How to deploy a laravel project on AWS EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing ) Instance .

Prerequisites

Create a Ubuntu Server On AWS EC2 Instance.
If not created yet ? Learn How to Create a Ubuntu 20.04 Server on AWS EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing)

Steps To deploy Laravel Project on EC2

Connect to EC2 instance using your private key ( Key Pair ).
Learn How to Connect to your EC2 Instance .

Update your Libraries

$ sudo apt-get update

Install Apache2

$ sudo apt-get install apache2

Now copy the IPv4 Public IP Address of your EC2 instance and hit on the browser. If you see a screen something like below , you are good to go. Apache server is working!

Install PHP and useful packages

$ sudo apt-get install php
$ php --version
$ sudo apt-get install php7.4-cli php7.4-common php7.4-curl php7.4-gd php7.4-json php7.4-mbstring php7.4-intl php7.4-mysql php7.4-xml php7.4-zip

Usually, when a user requests a directory from the web server, Apache will first look for a file named index.html. If you want to change Apache to serve php files rather than others, move index.php to first position in the dir.conf file as shown below.

$ sudo vi /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf

Install MySQL Server

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server

This will install mysql server but this will not prompt anything to configure mysql .

Configuring MySQL

$ sudo mysql_secure_installation

This way you can make some changes to your MySQL installation’s security options.

Note that even though you’ve set a password for the root MySQL user, this user is not configured to authenticate with a password when connecting to the MySQL shell because it uses auth_socket by default .

In order to use a password to connect to MySQL as root, you will need to switch its authentication method from auth_socket to mysql_native_password by using following commands.

$ sudo mysql

To configure the root account to authenticate with a password, run the following ALTER USER command. Note that this command will change the root password you set in mysql_secure_installation .

mysql> ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'yourpassword';

Then, run FLUSH PRIVILEGES which tells the server to reload the grant tables and put your new changes into effect:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Now You are done with setting up your mysql server on your EC2. you can use your credentials in your laravel project.

Install Composer

$ php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
$ php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'e0012edf3e80b6978849f5eff0d4b4e4c79ff1609dd1e613307e16318854d24ae64f26d17af3ef0bf7cfb710ca74755a') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
$ php composer-setup.php
$ php composer-setup.php --install-dir=bin --filename=composer
$ php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
$ composer --version

Install Git

$ sudo apt-get install git-core

Clone Your Repository

Change to /var/www/html directory and clone your Laravel Project there using following commands.

$ cd /var/www/html
$ sudo git clone https://github.com/username/reponame.git
$ cd reponame

Adding .env File to your Laravel project

$ sudo vi .env

Installing Libraries In Project

$ sudo composer install

Read Write Permissions for your Project

sudo chmod 777 -R storage/
sudo chmod 777 -R bootstrap/

Apache Configuration

By Default Apache open /var/www/html/index.html Now we have to open our Laravel project when we go to the public IP of the EC2.
Go to /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf and change the DocumentRoot as shown below.

$ sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

Restart your Apache

$ sudo systemctl restart apache2

Now you have successfully deployed your laravel Project on AWS ,
Which you can easily access through your public IPV4 IP Address.