Forge and Vapor deployment in Laravel - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Deploying a Laravel App with Forge and Vapor

📖 Scenario: You have built a Laravel web application and want to deploy it to the cloud. You will use Laravel Forge to set up a server and Laravel Vapor to deploy a serverless version of your app.

🎯 Goal: Learn how to prepare your Laravel app for deployment, configure Forge and Vapor, and deploy your app successfully.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a Laravel project with a basic route

Set up environment variables for deployment

Configure Forge server deployment settings

Configure Vapor deployment settings

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Deploying Laravel applications to cloud servers and serverless platforms is common in modern web development to ensure scalability and reliability.

💼 Career

Understanding Forge and Vapor deployment prepares you for roles involving Laravel app deployment, DevOps tasks, and cloud infrastructure management.

1

Create a basic Laravel route

Create a Laravel route in routes/web.php that returns the string 'Hello from Laravel!' when visiting the root URL '/'.

Laravel

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

// Add a route for '/' that returns 'Hello from Laravel!'
// Your code here

Need a hint?

Use Route::get with '/' as the path and a closure returning the string.

2

Set environment variables for deployment

Create a .env file in your Laravel project root with these exact entries:
APP_NAME=LaravelApp
APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_URL=https://yourdomain.com

Laravel

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::get('/', function () {
    return 'Hello from Laravel!';
});

// Create a .env file with deployment variables
// Your code here

Need a hint?

The .env file holds configuration for your app environment. Use the exact keys and values given.

3

Configure Forge deployment script

In your Forge server deployment script, add the command php artisan migrate --force to run database migrations automatically after deployment.

Laravel

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::get('/', function () {
    return 'Hello from Laravel!';
});

// Add deployment script command to run migrations
// Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the exact command php artisan migrate --force in your Forge deployment script to apply migrations safely.

4

Add Vapor deployment configuration

In your vapor.yml file, add the environments section with production environment setting memory: 1024 and timeout: 60 to configure Vapor deployment resources.

Laravel

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::get('/', function () {
    return 'Hello from Laravel!';
});

// Add vapor.yml environments configuration
// Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the exact keys environments, production, memory, and timeout with the given values in vapor.yml.