PHP Deployment

Deploying PHP Applications

# Nginx + PHP-FPM (recommended)
sudo apt install nginx php8.3-fpm php8.3-mysql

# /etc/nginx/sites-available/myapp
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name myapp.com;
    root /var/www/myapp/public;
    index index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

# Deployment checklist
# 1. Set APP_ENV=production
# 2. Disable display_errors
# 3. Enable OPcache
# 4. composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
# 5. Set correct file permissions
# 6. Enable HTTPS (certbot)