Digital Ocean Setup

1. Create a new droplet

2. SSH into new droplet as root ?

3. Create a new user with superuser

   1. adduser XXX
   2. usermod -aG sudo XXX

4. Configure firewall

   1. ufw allow OpenSSH
   2. ufw enable

5. SSH into droplet as XXX user

6. OPTIONAL - If droplet has less than 1GB ram, add swap space.

   1. sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
   2. sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
   3. sudo mkswap /swapfile
   4. sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
   5. echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

7. Install the LAMP or LEMP stack ?

   1. sudo apt update
   2. sudo apt install apache2
   3. sudo ufw allow in "Apache Full"
   4. sudo apt install mysql-server
   5. sudo mysql
   6. ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password by '<ROOT_DB_PASSWORD>';
   7. sudo mysql_secure_installation
   8. sudo apt install php8.1-fpm php-mysql
   9. sudo apt install php-mbstring php-xml php-bcmath php-curl
   10. Install composer ?
   11. Install nodejs ?

8. Setup the laravel project

   1. cd /var/www/html
   2. sudo git clone GIT_REPO_URL
   3. composer install
   4. cp .env.example .env
   5. sudo chown -R $USER:www-data /var/www/html/GIT_REPO_URL ?
   6. sudo chmod -R 775 storage/
   7. sudo chown -R $USER:www-data bootstrap/cache
   8. sudo chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache
   9. php artisan key:generate

9. Configure Nginx to work with laravel

   1. Copy the Nginx config from laravel's site to /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
   2. Change server_name to your domain or localhost
   3. change root to /var/www/html/GIT_REPO_URL/public
   4. Make sure the php version matches what was installed above
   5. sudo systemctl reload nginx

If npm run dev is killed unexpectedly, it's probably out of swap space.