LaraSail

LaraSail is a CLI tool for Laravel to help you sail the servers of the DigitalOcean.

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You'll need a DigitalOcean account before getting started (Signup here), then you'll need to create a New Droplet. Make sure to select Ubuntu Server:

Installation

SSH into your server and run the following command:

curl -sL https://github.com/thedevdojo/larasail/archive/master.tar.gz | tar xz && source larasail-master/install

You can make sure it's installed by running:

larasail -h

Setup your server

larasail setup

The default configuration will install Nginx, PHP 8.0, and MySQL 8. If you wish to use PHP 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1 or 8.2 you can include the argument php71/php72/php73/php74/php81/php82 like so:

larasail setup php71 # Install with PHP 7.1
larasail setup php72 # Install with PHP 7.2
larasail setup php73 # Install with PHP 7.3
larasail setup php74 # Install with PHP 7.4
larasail setup php81 # Install with PHP 8.1
larasail setup php82 # Install with PHP 8.2

Database

By default, LaraSail will set up the latest version of MySQL. To opt for MariaDB instead, kindly pass mariadb to larasail setup as the second or third parameter like so:

larasail setup mariadb # will install default PHP version (7.4) and MariaDB
larasail setup php80 mariadb # will install the selected PHP version (8.0 in this case) and MariaDB
larasail setup mariadb php80 # same as above

Redis

By default, LaraSail does not install a Redis server. To opt to install redis, pass redis option to larasail setup as the second or third parameter like so:

larasail setup php80 redis

or

larasail setup redis

Creating a new site

✨ Automatically

Laravel

After setting up the server you can create a new project by running:

larasail new <project-name> [--jet <livewire|inertia>] [--teams] [--www-alias]

This will automatically create a project folder in /var/www and set up a host if the provided project name contains periods (they will be replaced with underscores for the directory name). By default, LaraSail sets up the Nginx site configuration and Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for your domain. If you would like both the www alias and root domain setup (i.e. example.com and www.example.com) kindly pass the --www-alias flag.

Wave

Wave - The Software as a Service Starter Kit, designed to help you build the SAAS of your dreams. 🚀 💰 LaraSail allows you to create a new Wave project automatically by adding --wave flag to the new command as follows:

larasail new <project-name> [--wave]

Just like Laravel above, this will create a project folder, setup the Nginx site configuration and Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for your domain. By default, you will be prompted to create a project database and if successful, will migrate and seed the database.

🚧 Manually

Alternatively, you can clone a repository or create a new Laravel app within the /var/www folder:

cd /var/www && laravel new mywebsite

If you want to include Laravel Jetstream into your project, you need to specify the --jet option:

cd /var/www && laravel new mywebsite --jet

Then, you'll need to setup a new Nginx host by running:

larasail host mywebsite.com /var/www/mywebsite --www-alias

larasail host accepts three parameters:

1. Your website domain (mywebsite.com)
2. The location of the files for your site (/var/www/mywebsite/public)
3. Optional flag if you would like to include your project's www alias: www.mywebsite.com (--www-alias)

Finally, point your domain to the IP address of your new server. And wallah, you're ready to rock 🤘 with your new Laravel website. If you used the --www-alias flag, don't forget to add your domain's www CNAME record

Passwords

When installing and setting up LaraSail there are two passwords that are randomly generated:

1. The password for the larasail user created
2. The default MySQL password

To get the larasail user password you can type in the following command:

larasail pass

And the password for the larasail user will be displayed. Next, to get the default MySQL root password you can type the following command:

larasail mysqlpass

And the MySQL root password will be displayed.

Creating a database

After you have created your project you can create a database and user for it by using the following command:

larasail database init [--user larasail] [--db larasail] [--force]

By default it will create a database and the user larasail and grant all permissions to that user.

TIP: If you are in the project directory when you run this command, it will also try to update the .env file with the newly generated credentials.

After you have created a database, you can show the newly generated passwords using the following command:

larasail database pass

Switching to the larasail user

When you SSH into your server you may want to switch users back to the larasail user, you can do so with the following command:

su - larasail

Make sure to star this repository and watch it for future updates. Thanks for checking out LaraSail. ⛵

Contributing

If you are contributing, please read the contributing file before submitting your pull requests.