Laravel project deploy from local server to live server

July 7, 2021 . 1 MIN READ

the word “live” is used several times. I am not sure if you are saying “live” (as in ‘i live in a house’) or “live” (as in ‘lets go listen to live music).

Are you saying you want to deploy a Laravel 5 project to a web server?

Making the vast assumption that you already have a web server setup and configured (which is an entirely different and very complicated topic that can’t be answered in a simple forum thread…in which case I would say to use Laravel Forge to setup and push out a server so that you don’t have to learn all that junk)…

You just need to place your project folder somewhere on your server. For example, a project I might create for a fictional site called http://www.mycrazysillylaravelsite.com might be put onto my server in the following location

/home/benderisgr8te/www.mycrazysillylaravelsite.com/

Then, you would tell your web server to use the following folder for your root

/home/benderisgr8te/www.mycrazysillylaravelsite.com/public

Then you should be good to go.

Again, this assumes the following…

That you have a web server
That PHP and any other dependencies your app uses are installed and configured properly
That you have the means to copy your local files (either FTP, or pushing to VCS (such as GitHub) and then using Envoyer to deploy).

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/how-to-live-local-server-project-on-live-server