Hosting in AWS Ubuntu Lightsail

If you have aws account, you can skip this step.

Follow the link if you are new to aws to create aws account AWS Website:

You may follow the vide how to create aws account:

Go to AWS Lightsail dashboard to create ubuntu server. aws login Then, after you are in dashboard, search Lightsail as show in photo below then open the link.

To create new instance, click on create instance

You can chose the zone. If the zone is near to user client, the performace and network request is fast. In here, we will chose Singapore. Then we will Select a platform Linux. Then we will Select a blueprint Operating System (OS) Only. After that, we will pick the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

After that scroll down, you will see optional. I recommended you do create ssh key then select your ssh key. In this example, my ssh key is ultratechinnovations. You may chose the price for the server, I recommended you to chose starting from $7.

You may give the name you want for the server. Then clicke on Create instance Congratulation 🎉 you just create your ubuntu server from aws.

Go to networking tap as shown in picture. Then we will add IPv4 Firewall rules for https. Click add rules then search https then click create. Now you are ready for the next step to host laravel proejct.

Go to connect tap as shown in picture. Then click connect using ssh.

After that you are in the ubuntu server now.

Copy and past these commands in order to update the server.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y

Copy and past this commands and press enter in order to install the apache2.

sudo apt install apache2 -y

Please copy and past thses commands in your server terminal.

1. Install PHP 8.2: Add the necessary repository for PHP 8.2:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

sudo apt update

2. Install PHP 8.2 and required extensions:

sudo apt-get install -y php8.2-cli php8.2-common php8.2-fpm php8.2-mysql php8.2-zip php8.2-gd php8.2-mbstring php8.2-curl php8.2-xml php8.2-bcmath libapache2-mod-php

3. Install the grpc Extension

sudo apt install php8.2-grpc

sudo phpenmod grpc

4. Install MySQL:

sudo apt install mysql-server -y

Secure MySQL installation:

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Afte that you will be asking questions. You can type

N
N
y
y

create database and user

type mysql then press enter

mysql

Then you can copy below code, closer is the database name. You may give whatever you like.

CREATE DATABASE closer;

Then you should add database user using following cmd. Please copy and past line by line. your_user you have to replace with your databse user name for example admin. Then replace your_password.

CREATE USER 'your_user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'your_user'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

1. Navigate to the web root:

cd /var/www/html

2. Clone your repository:

sudo git clone https://github.com/your-repo/your-laravel-project.git

3. Set permissions for Laravel:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/your-laravel-project
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/your-laravel-project
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/your-laravel-project/storage
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/your-laravel-project/bootstrap/cache

4. copy .env.example

sudo cp .env.example .env

then add the databases information and other API information in .env file.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel_db
DB_USERNAME=laravel_user
DB_PASSWORD=your_password

1. Install Composer:

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

2. Install project dependencies: Navigate to your project folder:

cd /var/www/html/your-laravel-project

Run Composer to install dependencies:

sudo composer install

sudo php artisan key:generate

sudo php artisan migrate

1. Create a new Apache virtual host file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-laravel-project.conf

Add the following configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/your-laravel-project/public
    ServerName yourdomain.com
    <Directory /var/www/html/your-laravel-project>
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

3.Enable the new virtual host and mod_rewrite:

sudo a2ensite your-laravel-project.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite

4.sudo systemctl restart apache2

sudo systemctl restart apache2