Deploy Laravel App on Hetzner Cloud

Introduction

In this tutorial I'll show you how to deploy Laravel application on Hetzner cloud servers.

Step 1 - Create your first instance

• Login to your cloud dashboard from [https://console.hetzner.cloud]
• Create new project and name it whatever you want
• Choose your server location - it's up to you
• Click Add Server and select Ubuntu 18.04 from Image
• Choose the resources you need from Type
• Add your local machine SSH Key
  • You can read this article to know how to generate an SSH key
• Write your server hostname in name input
• Click Create & Buy Now

Step 2 - Login to your server

• Go to the server list in console cloud and copy your server's IP address (e.g. 10.0.0.1)
• Open your terminal and write # ssh root@10.0.0.1
• You will see now welcome message from your server

Step 3 - Install Apache

Type these commands:

• # apt-get update to update Ubuntu package manager
• # apt-get install apache2 to install Apache
• # service apache2 status to make sure that apache is working as a service. If you see active (running) then everything is ok

Step 4 - Install MySQL

• # apt-get install mysql-server to install mysql
• # mysql_secure_installation to set your mysql password.
  • the prompt will ask you few question
    • Would you like to setup VALIDATE PASSWORD plugin? : Y
    • Enter password validation policy : 0
    • New password: your password
    • Re-enter new password: your password again
    • Do you wish to continue with the password provided? : Y
    • Remove anonymous users? : Y
    • Disallow root login remotely? : Y
    • Remove test database and access to it? : Y
    • Reload privilege tables now? : Y
• # mysql -u root -p it will ask you for your password. If you see Welcome to the MySQL monitor then everything is ok

Step 5 - Install php

• # apt-get install software-properties-common
• # add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php to add php7.1 repository
• # apt-get update to update your package manager
• Install php and required extensions

# apt-get install php7.1 php7.1-xml php7.1-mbstring php7.1-mysql php7.1-json php7.1-curl php7.1-cli php7.1-common php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-gd libapache2-mod-php7.1 php7.1-zip php7.1-dom

Step 6 - Install Composer

• First download Composer installer
  • # curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o composer-setup.php
• Install Composer globally
  • # php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
• Now let's verify that Composer is installed successfully. Type # composer in your terminal and if you see something like Composer version 1.8.4 2019-02-11 10:52:10 then everything is ok

Step 7 - Install Laravel project

• # cd /var/www/html
• # composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog "5.6.*"
• Now let's move the files from blog/ directory to Apache's root directory # cd blog/ && mv * ../ && mv .env ../
• Go to http://10.0.0.1/public and you will see your app now

Conclusion

We have now learned how to use Hetzner Cloud Console to create a new server and install Laravel -LAMP stack- environment.

License: MIT