Digital Ocean Setup

1. Create a new droplet

2. SSH into new droplet as root ?

3. Create a new user with superuser

   1. adduser XXX
   2. usermod -aG sudo XXX

4. Configure firewall

   1. ufw allow OpenSSH
   2. ufw enable

5. SSH into droplet as XXX user

6. OPTIONAL - If droplet has less than 1GB ram, add swap space.

   1. sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
   2. sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
   3. sudo mkswap /swapfile
   4. sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
   5. echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

7. Install the LAMP or LEMP stack ?

   1. sudo apt update
   2. sudo apt install apache2
   3. sudo ufw allow in "Apache Full"
   4. sudo apt install mysql-server
   5. sudo mysql
   6. ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password by '<ROOT_DB_PASSWORD>';
   7. exit
   8. sudo mysql_secure_installation
   9. sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql

8. Configure apache vhosts

   1. sudo mkdir /var/www/fcms
   2. sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/fcms
   3. sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/fcms.conf

   <VirtualHost *:80>
       ServerName <YOUR_DOMAIN>
       ServerAlias <YOUR_DOMAIN>
       ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
       DocumentRoot /var/www/fcms/public
   
       <Directory /var/www/fcms/public>
           Options +FollowSymlinks
           AllowOverride All
           Require all granted
       </Directory>
   
       ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
       CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
   </VirtualHost>
   

   4. sudo a2ensite fcms
   5. sudo a2dissite 000-default
   6. sudo a2enmod rewrite
   7. sudo systemctl reload apache2

9. Configure php.ini

   1. sudo vi /etc/php/8.1/apache2/php.ini
   2. upload_max_filesize = 64M
   3. post_max_size = 64M

10. Add rest of things laravel needs

    1. sudo apt update
    2. sudo apt install php-mbstring php-xml php-bcmath php-curl php-imagick
    3. sudo apt install php-cli unzip ?
    4. cd ~
    5. curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o /tmp/composer-setup.php
    6. sudo php /tmp/composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
    7. cd ~
    8. curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x -o nodesource_setup.sh ?
    9. sudo bash nodesource_setup.sh
    10. sudo apt install nodejs

11. Setup the laravel project

    1. cd /var/www/fcms
    2. sudo git clone https://github.com/ryanhowdy/fcms.git .
    3. composer install
    4. npm install
    5. cp .env.example .env
    6. php artisan key:generate
    7. sudo chown -R $USER:www-data storage
    8. sudo chown -R $USER:www-data bootstrap/cache
    9. chmod -R 775 storage
    10. chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache

12. (Optional) Install SSL Cert

    1. Use Let's Encrypt