Laravel on AWS

Notes

• In this tutorial, I will use Ubuntu system always
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Intro

1. Create AWS account
2. Create EC2 key pair (you will use it to login to console)
3. Create IAM Instance Profile with permissions
   • AWSElasticBeanstalkWebTier
   • AWSElasticBeanstalkWorkerTier
   • AWSElasticBeanstalkMulticontainerDocker
   • AWSElasticBeanstalkEnhancedHealth
   • AWSElasticBeanstalkManagedUpdatesCustomerRolePolicy
   • AWSElasticBeanstalkRoleWorkerTier
4. Create Elastic Beanstalk application

Manual Deployment

Zip your files then deploy them:

sudo php artisan config:clear
sudo php artisan optimize:clear
sudo zip ../files.zip -r * .[^.]* -x "vendor/*"

Login to console

sudo ssh -i /path/to/key.pem ec2-user@{IP_ADDRESS}

Your files will be in /var/www/html (actually /var/app/current)

Configuring SSL (HTTPS)

Open port (firewall)

Go to: AWS Console > EC2 > Instances > {INSTANCE_NAME} > Security > Security groups > Edit inbound rules > Add port 443 for Ipv6, Ipv4

Apache configuration

First, add your certificate files to some folder (I suggest /ssl in project root directory), then:

cd /etc/httpd/conf.d/elasticbeanstalk && sudo nano ssl.conf

Write:

Listen 443 https
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public
    ServerName {DOMAIN}
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /var/www/html/ssl/file.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /var/www/html/ssl/file.key
    SSLCertificateChainFile /var/www/html/ssl/file.ca-bundle
</VirtualHost>

Check if it's correct then restart:

sudo apachectl configtest && sudo apachectl restart

Note: This will be removed after environment restart. If you want it to be saved always, use .ebextensions configuration files.

Auto fetching from GitHub (Not working)

1. Create a pipeline
2. Connect it to your Github account
3. Create CodeBuild, and make everything as default
4. Select Ubuntu as System

And it requires that you have buildspecs.yml file on the root, here is a suggested config:

version: 0.2
phases:
  install:
    commands:
      - echo "##INSTALLING: Composer##"
      - php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
      - php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'e21205b207c3ff031906575712edab6f13eb0b361f2085f1f1237b7126d785e826a450292b6cfd1d64d92e6563bbde02') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
      - php composer-setup.php
      - php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
  build:
    commands:
      - echo "##Building: START##"
      - composer install
      - composer update
      - php artisan optimize:clear
      - php artisan config:clear
      - php artisan storage:link
      - echo "##Building: END##"
artifacts:
  files:
    - '**/*'
  name: website-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)