In this section i will show how to deploy Laravel Starter on AWS EC2

For this project i used Sample App Laravel Starter from Nasir Khan Saikat to Deploy on AWS EC2 you can find this project on https://github.com/nasirkhan/laravel-starter

1. Go to your AWS Console, then open the EC2 Instance.
2. Create new Instance, you can find on Launch Instance Button.
3. On this section i use Free Tier Spec:

• Operating System : Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Instance Type : t2.micro
• Storage : 8 GB
• Port Allow Needed : 22 (SSH), 80(HTTP), 433(HTTPS), 8000(Optional Laravel Port)

4. Create or use existing keypair for SSH Remote.
5. For the Network Setting, you can use default VPC or your own VPC.
6. Create Security Group, for allow Port 22, 80, 8000, and 433. On this section i use security group was i already created, i give name WebServer
7. To shorten the time, on this section i use metadata was i created on this Repository.
8. Click Advanced Details, go to Metadata Section and drop it metadata-laravel config into it.
9. Review Instance on Summary, made sure all the spec and config already correct. Choose Launch Instance.
10. After instance succesfully created, check on your instance EC2 dashboard. Make sure instance running and status check passed.

#!/bin/bash
apt update -y && apt upgrade -y
timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Jakarta
apt install -y nginx
apt install -y git
apt install -y php-cli php-xml php-curl php-zip php-mbstring php-dom php8.1-mysql php8.1-fpm php-bcmath
apt install -y mariadb-server
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo bash -
apt install -y nodejs
systemctl start nginx
service php8.1-fpm start

1. Update and Upgrade package linux
2. Set Timezone to your Region (You can replace with your region)
3. Install Nginx
4. Install Git
5. Install PHP 8.1 and other extension
6. Install MariaDB
7. Set Package Repo for Install NodeJS Version 16.x
8. Start Nginx Service
9. Start PHP 8.1 FPM Service

1. Connect to instance using SSH

ssh -i (YOUR_KEY_PAIR) ubuntu@PUBLIC_IP_AWS_EC2

2. If you rejected to connect instance using SSH, try to sudo chmod 400 (YOUR_KEY_PAIR). And then reconnect
3. After you successfully connect instance using SSH, made sure all package successfully installed.
4. For verify package you can use (PACKAGE_NAME --version) example nginx --version
5. Check Nginx already running using sudo systemctl status nginx
6. Try to Access Website via Public IP Instance AWS EC2.
7. If success, it will return like this.

1. Go to /var/www/html
2. Remove default index sudo rm index.nginx-debian.html
3. Git clone Laravel Starter using git clone https://github.com/nasirkhan/laravel-starter.git
4. After done, open laravel-starter folder
5. Install Composer package

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

5. Run sudo composer install
6. Duplicate .env.example to .env using

sudo cp .env.exampe .env

7. Set permission setting for mysql & Root Password using mysql_secure_installation
8. Login mysql using mysql -u root -p
9. Enter root password
10. Run this MYSQL Script

CREATE DATABASE laravel_starter;
CREATE USER 'laravel_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Laravel123!!!';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON laravel_starter.* TO 'laravel_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Laravel123!!!';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

11. Test login mysql using laravel user sudo msyql -u laravel_user -p
12. Try to use DB laravel_starter and show tables

USE DATABASE laravel_starter;
SHOW TABLES;

13. Change .env config for DB Connection
14. Run sudo nano .env
15. Edit following this

APP_URL=YOUR_IP_PUBLIC_AWS
DB_USER=laravel_user
DB_PASSWORD=Laravel123!!!

16. Run sudo php artisan migrate --seed
17. Run sudo php artisan key:generate
18. Set Required File Permission

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/laravel-starter/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/laravel-starter

19. Change Path Folder to /etc/nginx/sites-available
20. Create new file config nginx sudo nano laravel-server
21. Copy configuration on file sites-enabled-laravel on this repo and then paste it
22. Save and Exit
23. Create link to sites-enabled using sudo ln /etc/nginx/sites-available/laravel-server /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
24. Check configuration file nginx nginx -t
25. Unlink default nginx configuration unlink default
26. Reload nginx sudo systemctl reload nginx
27. After successfully, let's try open Laravel Starter via Public IP was already set (via HTTP Protocol)