Deploy a PHP application

The broad steps to deploy a PHP application on LAMP Production-Ready packaged by Bitnami are as follows:

• Connect to any of the application instances over SSH.

• Create a directory for the application in the /bitnami directory and give it appropriate permissions:

    $ sudo mkdir /bitnami/myapp
    $ sudo chown bitnami:bitnami /bitnami/myapp
  

• Create a virtual host for the PHP application pointing to its public directory and save the corresponding configuration in the /opt/bitnami/apache/conf/vhosts/ directory:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
      DocumentRoot "/bitnami/myapp/public"
      DirectoryIndex index.php
  
      <Directory "/bitnami/myapp/public">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
      </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>
  

• Check the Apache configuration and confirm that the syntax is correct:

    $ apachectl configtest
  

• Perform any related database initialization or configuration.

• Restart services on each instance:

    $ sudo service bitnami restart
  

When you access the Elastic Load Balancer URL, you should now see the welcome page of the PHP application.

Example deployment: Laravel application

The following example demonstrates the commands and configuration needed to deploy a standard Laravel PHP application on LAMP Production-Ready packaged by Bitnami.

• Connect to any of the application instances over SSH.

• Create a directory for the application in the /bitnami directory and give it appropriate permissions:

    $ sudo mkdir /bitnami/laravel
    $ sudo chown bitnami:bitnami /bitnami/laravel
  

• Create a new Laravel application:

    $ composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel /bitnami/laravel
  

• Update directory permissions:

    $ cd /bitnami/laravel/
    $ sudo chown bitnami:daemon -R storage bootstrap/cache
    $ sudo find storage bootstrap/cache -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
    $ sudo find storage bootstrap/cache -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
  

• Create a virtual host for the Laravel application pointing to its public directory and save the corresponding configuration as /opt/bitnami/apache/conf/vhosts/laravel-vhost.conf:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
      DocumentRoot "/bitnami/laravel/public"
      DirectoryIndex index.php
  
      <Directory "/bitnami/laravel/public">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
      </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>
  

• Check the Apache configuration and confirm that the syntax is correct:

    $ apachectl configtest
  

• Connect to the Amazon RDS database service using the MySQL command-line client and run the commands below to create a new database and user for the application:

    mysql> create database laravel;
    mysql> grant all privileges on laravel.* TO 'laravel'@'%' identified by 'guessme';
    mysql> flush privileges;
  

• Put (or substitute) the values of the newly-created database and user in the /bitnami/laravel/.env file. Replace the URL-ENDPOINT placeholder with the correct endpoint for your Amazon RDS deployment:

    DB_CONNECTION=mysql
    DB_HOST=URL-ENDPOINT
    DB_PORT=3306
    DB_DATABASE=laravel
    DB_USERNAME=laravel
    DB_PASSWORD=guessme
  

• Make substitutions in the Laravel database configuration for Amazon RDS:

    $ sed -i "s/utf8mb4/utf8/g" /bitnami/laravel/config/database.php
  

• Run database migrations:

    $ cd /bitnami/laravel
    $ php artisan migrate
  

• Restart services on each instance:

    $ sudo service bitnami restart
  

When you access the Elastic Load Balancer URL, you should now see the welcome page of the Laravel application.

TIP: To configure Elasticache to work with the Laravel application, refer to the Laravel cache configuration documentation.