Deploying simple Laravel Application in AWS with Nginx

01 Installing nginx, php, composer and laravel dependencies into ubuntu server

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php -y
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install nginx -y
sudo apt-get install zip unzip php7.4 php7.4-mysql php7.4-fpm php7.4-xml php7.4-gd php7.4-opcache php7.4-mbstring php7.4-zip -y

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

02 Getting Laravel up & running

cd /var/www/html
sudo composer create-project laravel/laravel tutorial --prefer-dist
sudo chown -R www-data:ubuntu tutorial/
sudo chmod -R 775 tutorial/


#cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
#sudo nano tutorial.conf
#copy paste the content of below nginx config file

#cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
#sudo rm -rf default
#sudo ln -s ../sites-available/tutorial.conf .
#sudo nginx -t
#sudo service nginx restart

__If composer memory error

sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
#https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-laravel-with-an-nginx-web-server-on-ubuntu-14-04#create-swap-file-(optional)

nginx config file (tutorial.conf)

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/html/tutorial/public;

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
        deny all;
    }
}