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Setting Up Laravel in Ubuntu / DigitalOcean	servers, laravel, coderstape, coder's tape	Let's take a look at settting up a server from scratch for Laravel.	April 1, 2019	servers, laravel	setting-up-laravel-in-ubuntu-digitalocean	https://coderstape.com/storage/uploads/GZTXUbyGum2xeUZM9qBD5aPv8EKLwG3C8RGcRon4.jpeg	Victor Gonzalez	https://github.com/vicgonvt

In this post, we are looking at the steps necessary to create an Ubuntu droplet in DigitalOcean from scratch. This is the companion guide to the video series in Laravel 5.8 from scrath. Follow along with those to get the video guide.

Part 1 https://coderstape.com/lesson/112-deployment-basic-server-setup-part-1

Part 2 https://coderstape.com/lesson/113-deployment-basic-server-setup-part-2

Part 3 https://coderstape.com/lesson/114-deployment-basic-server-setup-part-3

Getting Started

• Create droplet with Ubuntu 18.10
• ssh root@[DROPLET IP ADDRESS]
• Get password from your email
• Change password on first login
• adduser laravel
• Enter password and other information
• usermod -aG sudo laravel

Locking Down to SSH Key only (Extremely Important)

• In your local machine, ssh-keygen
• Generate a key, if you leave passphrase blank, no need for password
• ls ~/.ssh to show files in local machine
• Get the public key, cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
• Copy it
• cd ~/.ssh and vim authorized_keys
• Paste key
• Repeat steps for laravel user
• su laravel then mkdir ~/.ssh fix permissions chmod 700 ~/.ssh
• vim ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and paste key
• chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys to restrict this from being modified
• exit to return to root user

Disable Password from Server

• sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
• Find PasswordAuthentication and set that to no
• Turn on PubkeyAuthentication yes
• Turn off ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
• Reload the SSH service sudo systemctl reload sshd
• Test new user in a new tab to prevent getting locked out

Setting Up Firewall

• View all available firewall settings
• sudo ufw app list
• Allow on OpenSSH so we don't get locked out
• sudo ufw allow OpenSSH
• Enable Firewall
• sudo ufw enable
• Check the status
• sudo ufw status

Install Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP

Nginx

• sudo apt update enter root password
• sudo apt install nginx enter Y to install
• sudo ufw app list For firewall
• sudo ufw allow 'Nginx HTTP' to add NGINX
• sudo ufw status to verify change
• Visit server in browser

MySQL

• sudo apt install mysql-server enter Y to install
• sudo mysql_secure_installation to run automated securing script
• Press N for VALIDATE PASSWORD plugin
• Set root password
• Remove anonymous users? Y
• Disallow root login remotely? N
• Remove test database and access to it? Y
• Reload privilege tables now? Y
• sudo mysql to enter MySQL CLI
• SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user; to verify root user's auth method
• ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'STRONG_PASSWORD_HERE'; to set a root password
• SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user; to verify root user's auth method
• FLUSH PRIVILEGES; to apply all changes
• mysql -u root -p to access db from now on, enter password STRONG_PASSWORD_HERE

PHP & Basic Nginx

• sudo add-apt-repository universe to add software repo
• sudo apt install php-fpm php-mysql to install the basic PHP software
• sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/YOUR.DOMAIN.COM

server {
        listen 80;
        root /var/www/html;
        index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
        server_name YOUR.DOMAIN.COM;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        }

        location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
        }
}

• sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/YOUR.DOMAIN.COM /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ to create symlink to enabled sites
• sudo unlink /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default to remove default link
• sudo nginx -t test the whole config
• sudo systemctl reload nginx to apply all changes
• sudo vim /var/www/html/info.php to start a new PHP file, fill it with <?php phpinfo();
• sudo rm /var/www/html/info.php optional command to get rid of test file

Let's Dial in The Laravel Ecosystem

• sudo apt-get install php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xml composer unzip
• mysql -u root -p Login to create the Laravel DB
• CREATE DATABASE laravel DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
• GRANT ALL ON laravel.* TO 'laraveluser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
• FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
• exit
• cd /var/www/html, sudo mkdir -p first-project
• sudo chown laravel:laravel first-project
• git clone https://github.com/coderstape/laravel-58-from-scratch.git .
• composer install
• cp .env.example .env, and then vim .env

APP_NAME=Laravel
APP_ENV=production
APP_KEY=
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_URL=http://YOUR.DOMAIN.COM

LOG_CHANNEL=stack

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=root
DB_USERNAME=laravel
DB_PASSWORD=STRONG_PASSWORD_HERE

• php artisan migrate
• php artisan key:generate to generate the key
• sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache fix permissions
• sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache fix permissions
• sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/first-project fix permissions
• chmod -R o+w /var/www/html/first-project/storage/ fix permission

Modify Nginx

• sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/YOUR.DOMAIN.COM

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    root /var/www/html/first-project/public;
    index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    server_name YOUR.DOMAIN.COM;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
            deny all;
    }
}

• sudo nginx -t
• sudo systemctl reload nginx reload Nginx

Let's Encrypt

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot to get repo
• sudo apt install python-certbot-nginx to install
• sudo certbot certonly --webroot --webroot-path=/var/www/html/quickstart/public -d example.com -d www.example.com
• sudo certbot certonly --webroot --webroot-path=/var/www/html/first-project/public -d YOUR.DOMAIN.COM

Final mod for Nginx

• sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/YOUR.DOMAIN.COM

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    server_name YOUR.DOMAIN.COM;
    return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
    server_name YOUR.DOMAIN.COM;
    root /var/www/html/first-project/public;

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOUR.DOMAIN.COM/fullchain.pem;
	ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOUR.DOMAIN.COM/privkey.pem;
    
    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;
	ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384;
	ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

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

	index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    charset utf-8;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
            deny all;
    }

    location ~ /.well-known {
            allow all;
    }
}

• sudo nginx -t
• sudo ufw app list For firewall
• sudo ufw allow 'Nginx HTTPS' to add NGINX
• sudo ufw status to verify change
• sudo systemctl reload nginx reload Nginx

Extra Credit

Let's make the prompt pretty

• sudo apt-get install zsh to install ZSH
• zsh --version to confirm install
• whereis zsh to find out where it is
• sudo usermod -s /usr/bin/zsh $(whoami) to make Zsh default
• sudo reboot to reapply all changes
• 2 to populate a default file
• sudo apt-get install powerline fonts-powerline to install powerline
• sudo apt-get install zsh-theme-powerlevel9k to install Theme
• echo "source /usr/share/powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k.zsh-theme" >> ~/.zshrc to enable the theme in your Zshrc
• exit and login again to see the new theme
• sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)" for Oh My Zsh
• echo "source /usr/share/powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k.zsh-theme" >> ~/.zshrc to re-enable 9K