Laravel Deployment Guide: Taking Your App Live

A beginner's guide to deploying a Laravel application — server requirements, environment setup, optimization, and a launch checklist.

You've built your Laravel app locally — now it's time to put it on the internet. This guide covers the essential steps and a pre launch checklist for deploying safely. Hosting Options for Beginners Option Best For Laravel Forge Managing your own VPS (DigitalOcean, AWS, etc.) with ease Laravel Cloud Fully managed Laravel specific hosting Shared hosting (with SSH/Composer support) Budget friendly, simple projects VPS (manual setup) Full control, more configuration required For beginners, Forge or a managed platform removes most of the server configuration headache. Server Requirements PHP 8.2+ Required PHP extensions: BCMath , Ctype , Fileinfo , JSON , Mbstring , OpenSSL , PDO , Tokenizer , XML Composer A web server (Nginx or Apache) MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite Step 1: Push Your Code Use Git to push your project to your server (or connect your hosting platform directly to your GitHub reposi...

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