Production

Notes on deploying Laravel applications

User and Group

Add current user to NGINX group

sudo usermod -a -G nginx $USER

Permissions

Set permissions for Laravel application

sudo chown -R $USER:nginx /var/www/html # Change to your project path
sudo chgrp -R nginx storage bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache

Optional

You can install Composer dependencies with only needed packages for production by running:

composer install --no-dev --no-interaction --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader

This will install only the packages needed for production and will optimize the autoloader.

Reload .env in production

rm bootstrap/cache/config.php
php artisan config:cache
php artisan config:clear
php artisan cache:clear