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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