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. SSH into droplet as XXX user

5. Install the LEMP stack ? ?

   1. sudo apt install nginx
   2. sudo apt install php8.1-fpm php-mysql
   3. sudo apt install php-mbstring php-xml php-bcmath php-curl
   4. Install composer ?
   5. Install nodejs ?

6. Setup the laravel project

   1. cd /var/www/html
   2. sudo git clone GIT_REPO_URL
   3. composer install

7. 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