Laravel deployment

Project Extraction

First you have to extract the snapta.zip then you will get three zip files.
- snapta_laravel.zip
- snapta_admin.zip
- snapta_node.zip
- snapta_web.zip (if you have website version)
- snapta_app.zip (if you have application version)
Create snapta_laravel folder with below command
```
 mkdir -p /var/www/snapta_laravel
```
Upload snapta_laravel.zip to a location where you want to deploy Project using FileZilla
- /var/www/snapta_laravel (This is the recommended location)

Change ownership of the folder to current user

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/snapta_laravel

Install unzip to unzip the Project . Run following command to install unzip
```
sudo apt install unzip
```
extract the snapta_laravel.zip
```
unzip snapta_laravel.zip
```

Configurations

After the extraction you will see the Project files

Configure Environment Variables

Edit the .env file in the root directory of your project. This step is mandatory to ensure the application can connect to your database.

Update the following lines in the .env file with your actual server and database credentials:

APP_URL=http://{your_server_ip}
DB_DATABASE={your_database_name}
DB_USERNAME={your_database_username}
DB_PASSWORD={your_database_password}

Clear Configuration Caches

Before running migrations, clear all cached configurations using the following Artisan commands:

php artisan config:clear
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan route:clear
php artisan view:clear

php artisan optimize

Install Laravel Passport

Passport is required for API authentication. Install it by running:

php artisan passport:install --force

During the installation process, you may be prompted with configuration options. Answer "yes" to all questions.

Passport Screenshot

Server Starting

To Serve our project you have to edit apache virtualhost file.

Open default virtualhost file.

  sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

Replace existing Directory and DocumentRoot with below ones.

  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
  ServerName 217.196.51.119

  DocumentRoot /var/www/snapta_laravel/public

  <Directory /var/www/snapta_laravel/public>
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride All
      Require all granted
  </Directory>

  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

then after enable rewrite module of apache
```
  a2enmod rewrite
```
- First check for any syntax error with below command.
```
  apachectl configtest
```
- If syntax is ok then after restart the server.
```
  sudo systemctl restart apache2
```

Varification

Open below url in the web browser.

http://{your_server_ip}/SoftwareInstallation1

If everything was installed correctly then you will see page like below.
Requirements PHP Extensions.
In here you have to enter envato Username and purchase code.

Purchase code
You can only use this purchase code one time.
Third steps is for database configuration.
- Provide a Database name which you want to use for this snapta (That Database must not be exist before creation. That will be automatically created at runtime)
- Provide Database Username (User which will have acces of this Database. For Security purpose Provide a totally new username for this )
- Provide Database User's Password. This password will be used to access that database. Although Root user will have access of all the Databse which exist in It's MySQL
- After all the installation prccess completed you will see this page.
  
  note
  After successfully completing the manual deployment, please run php artisan optimize in your project. This step is mandatory. Additionally, if you make any changes to the .env file, always remember to run php artisan optimize afterward.

Project Extraction​

Configurations​

Configure Environment Variables​

Clear Configuration Caches​

Install Laravel Passport​

Server Starting​

To Serve our project you have to edit apache virtualhost file.​

Varification​

Open below url in the web browser.​