natecrisler/boondock-echo

Setup instructions

Installing Apache on Ubuntu server

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-and-configure-apache#1-overview

Install a VM with Ubuntu 20

sudo apt update sudo apt install apache2

Configure the domain to point to the web application

####Setup the virtual host for the web application

We start this step by going into the configuration files directory:

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/

Since Apache came with a default VirtualHost file, let’s use that as a base. (gci.conf is used here to match our subdomain name):

sudo cp 000-default.conf dev.conf

Now edit the configuration file:

sudo nano boondock-dev.conf

We should have our email in ServerAdmin so users can reach you in case Apache experiences any error:

ServerAdmin yourname@example.com We also want the DocumentRoot directive to point to the directory our site files are hosted on:

DocumentRoot /var/www/dev/

The default file doesn’t come with a ServerName directive so we’ll have to add and define it by adding this line below the last directive:

ServerName www.boondockdev.com

Activate teh file

sudo a2ensite boondock-dev.conf

Reload apache

sudo service apache2 reload

Install Laravel and dependencies

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mbstring php-cli php-bcmath php-json php-xml php-zip php-pdo php-common php-tokenizer php-mysql

Check PHP Verison

php -v

##Install composer

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

###Update Node to Version 18.

Install Laravel 8

Installation process will create a dev folder. The same folder is used in the Virtual Host settings above

cd /var/www/html

sudo composer create-project laravel/laravel dev

Set the ownership of the folder

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/dev
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/dev/storage

Check the Laravel version

cd dev
php artisan

Configure Apache to Server Laravel

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/dev.conf

Add the following lines to the configuration file

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName example.com ServerAdmin kchandel@boondockdev.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/dev/public <Directory /var/www/html/dev> AllowOverride All ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Setup SSL

sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt install -y certbot python3-certbot-apache

Obtaining a certificate For the needs of this post, I assume you have already installed the Apache2 server and configured the virtual host. Example of the most basic virtual host configuration below:

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerAdmin admin@your-domain.com
    ServerName your-domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/your_project
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

You also have to enable the Apache SSL module and restart your server.

sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo service apache2 restart

Since we have our virtual host prepared and Certbot installed, we can finally generate the certificate.

sudo certbot --apache -d www.boondockdev.com

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