Just new to deploying Laravel apps, seems deployer is able to provision the server as well?

Also how does larasail handles updates to the server?

Thanks!

...can't software developers write readable instructions?
IMHO, every tech company should employ humanities scholars like me to write actual instructions for actual people. Please, image you didn't build it and don't know how it works, and start to explain it from that mindset.

Update Php Version

For laravel 9 and newer versions you need php version 8.1 or newer, otherwise it is often incompatible and can cause errors when deploying.

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Inspired by #59
It would be really awesome to have the choice to install MariaDB instead of MySQL.

Describe the solution you'd like

Just like php, among the options for mysql Version, have a mariadb option that installs the latest version of MariaDB.

Describe alternatives you've considered

MySQL is the default option. I run MariaDB 10.5 in production. It would be nice to have the option

Additional context

Not sure if the option would be helpful to anyone else besides myself?

Describe the bug

After installing larasail and running larasail setup I tried executing the next step:

cd /var/www && laravel new mywebsite

which in turn printed:

laravel: command not found

To Reproduce

1. Create Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) x64 droplet on Digital Ocean
2. Install larasail
3. Try executing laravel under larasail user

Expected behavior

Global command larasail works

Screenshots

Context

Checking $PATH variable I found that /home/larasail/.composer/vendor/bin is actually present, however the directory itself is missing.

Proposed solution

Use composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel <project-name> instead (reference)

As per the the official launchpad description https://launchpad.net/~certbot/+archive/ubuntu/certbot and the following blocking prompt, the ppa has been deprecated.

As per eff instructions (https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntufocal-nginx), the recommended installation method is as a snap package. I would personally never run snapd on a server just to install certbot and would sometimes opt to run the outdated version found in the official packages (https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/certbot: currently at version 0.40 while the latest certbot release is version 1.2) but wanted to get the community input on this one.

@bobbyiliev what's your thoughts?

I follow all steps but when I visit the IP Public I got the Nginx page?

Hey Tony, what about SSL integration? Can you tray add https://certbot.eff.org/ ?

https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/laravel
Please add
Apache+
OpenLiteSpeed
phpMyAdmin
Redis
Upgrade PHP 8.1

Does Larasail setup certbot to auto renew SSL certifications?

If not, what is the best way to set this up? I have read different methods.

https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/using.html#setting-up-automated-renewal says to run:

SLEEPTIME=$(awk 'BEGIN{srand(); print int(rand()*(3600+1))}'); echo "0 0,12 * * * root sleep $SLEEPTIME && certbot renew -q" | sudo tee -a /etc/crontab > /dev/null

https://www.nginx.com/blog/using-free-ssltls-certificates-from-lets-encrypt-with-nginx/ says:

$ crontab -e and add
0 12 * * * /usr/bin/certbot renew --quiet

Thanks in advance,

Thank you for this great tool. A question. Is it possible to install a different version of mysql? Just like php?

Hey, excellent work by you. The installation was as smooth as sailing in the ocean. Truly, great stuff. Thanks alot for this.

Though, I messed up, rather forgot to get the larasail credentials before closing/exiting the terminal? I can ssh as root, but how do I get those credentials now? :(

Hi, I have installed this package and all working except the MySQL. I’m trying to login to database using command “mysql-u root -p” and enter the generated password from “larasail mysqlpass” but always denied.

I think I have missed something but I don’t know what’s that. Anyone can help?

I don't think 777 is a good idea though, good job

Describe the bug

How can I verify that '--www-alias' has worked?

The www. domain to my site doesn't appear to work. I added '--www-alias' when running larasail host.

No SSL is setup for the www. domain and it displays the nginx page when accessed (rather than my site).

https://testing.cjs-web.co.uk - works
http://www.test.cjs-web.co.uk - displays nginx page

I setup a CNAME record as follows:

I have a Laravel site in a Bitbucket repo, using Larasail to setup a Digital Ocean droplet.

To Reproduce

The commands I ran on my droplet:

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

larasail setup php74

cd /var/www && git clone https://[email protected]/myusername/myrepo.git

composer install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

larasail host myrepo.mydomain.co.uk /var/www/myrepo--www-alias

Please fill out this template

Additional context

Describe the bug

During installation, the following warning is presented:

DEPRECATION WARNING                            

  Node.js 15.x is no longer actively supported!

  You will not receive security or critical stability updates for this version.

  You should migrate to a supported version of Node.js as soon as possible.
  Use the installation script that corresponds to the version of Node.js you
  wish to install. e.g.

   * https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x — Node.js 12 LTS "Erbium"
   * https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x — Node.js 14 LTS "Fermium" (recommended)
   * https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x — Node.js 16 "Gallium"

To Reproduce

Run the following:

larasail setup

Expected behavior

Install a supported npm version

Screenshots

Desktop

Test run in docker but the error can be replicated in any supported debian-based OS:

• OS: docker
• Version: ubuntu:20.04

Smartphone

N/A

Additional context

Recommended to update the script to install LTS (npm v14) or latest (npm v16)

when trying to create a database

use larasail database init --force

Additional context

larasail@mywebsite:~$ larasail database init --force
Please enter database user to create [larasail]: mywebsite
Please enter database name to create [larasail]: mywebsite
WARNING: This will remove existing database and user!
Are you sure? [y/N] y
ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
ERROR: Unable to create database 'mywebsite' (possible duplicate)
INFO: You can force new database creation with the same name by using --force flag

I accidentally created my website in the wrong path. I need to change it. In the larasail command list I could not find "remove" or "replace".

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Am opening a discussion here on whether it makes sense to set php 8.0 as the default in time for Laravel 9's release scheduled for January 25th, 2022. Related to this, might want to opinions on whether Larasail should continue supporting 7.1 and 7.2 beyond 2022

Describe the solution you'd like

Tag a release with 7.4 as the default, add setup instructions in the README and switch to 8.0 from the new year going forward.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Status quo

Additional context

Following the release of PHP 8.1, version 7.3 will be going immediately out of life.
Version 7.4 on the other hand will cease active development and shall only receive security patches for the next few months.
Symphony 6 which came out last month has a minimum requirement of php8.0 and Laravel 9 which shall be coming out next month will also require >=8.0.

This did not work at all. I tried all everything, and nothing worked. Thanks for trying. This looked promising, but I guess it is back to the drawing board for me.

Laravel does not need mcrypt extension anymore as mcrypt is obsolete

Description

when executing larasail setup in ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine, the installation will finish with certbot installation error

Error

Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal InRelease               
Err:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/certbot/certbot/ubuntu focal Release            
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Reading package lists... Done                                                  
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/certbot/certbot/ubuntu focal Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package python-certbot-nginx is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  python3-certbot-nginx

E: Package 'python-certbot-nginx' has no installation candidate

Fix

It can be easily fix by running sudo apt install python3-certbot-nginx

Expected Result

It would be better if it can install python3-certbot-nginx automatically and also sudo apt install unzip since composer may need unzip library to run properly.

i have came phase about specifying domain name, but i dont want to specify a domain name, i want to open my project with IP like 5555.555.555 or 5555.555.555/project

How can i do ?

There is weird problem with ubuntu 18.04 after larasail setup . It works well in ubuntu 16.04 but i guess many people will use 18.04

Thanks :)

I've tried installing 2 brand new droplets (to confirm I didn't make any errors the first time) as described on DevDojo.com, but once I enter the initial curl command and hit enter, it shows the larasail logo but stops after that and just shows a "$" prompt. Anything I enter here, even ls or any other basic commands return "command not found". I have to execute 'exit' to leave this mode.

Once I do hit exit, it brings me back to the initial (root@:~#) prompt that I land on when initially logging in.

Note: if i try running the curl command a 2nd time, it does note that 'useradd: user 'larasail' already exists'

Hello,

Most of Laravel applications use some queue for sending emails etc.
The most popular tools are Redis & Horizon.

Can you add option to setup supervisord + redis + horizon?
I will appreciate
Thx.

It looks like that the Laravel installer requires PHP 7.3.0 or greater.

As a workaround you can use the following command instead:

cd /var/www && composer create-project laravel/laravel mywebsite

This is a great time-saving package,
I just cannot access to MySQL on windows .. I followed your video tutorial but I don't have sequel Pro and I tried with workbench but it didn't work.

I already have a laravel project built and ready to deploy. Will this help me with that? I followed all of the steps and have no idea what to do now.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Describe the solution you'd like

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It would be amazing to pass a git repository while initiating a new project. This would make it easy to provision a test environment for an existing app.

Describe the solution you'd like

For new repositories, --git parameter would be passed through to laravel new project --git.
If --repo (or repository) is passed, then a git clone is performed instead of `larasail new project.tld.

Alternatively, we can have a command different from new e.g deploy to avoid complicating new to support params such as --dev (can be used to determine if to --no-dev in composer install and determine the npm script to run)

Additional context

Every application environment is different to the next therefore this will be sufficient for everyone.
Would love to hear additional thoughts and if this is a desired feature in the first place.

Describe the bug

Running the following in MariaDB fails with the error shown below:

CREATE USER 'foo'@'%' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 's3cur3b@r';
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB 
server version for the right syntax to use near 'BY 's3cur3b@r'' at line 

To Reproduce

1. setup larasail with MariaDB: larasail setup mariadb
2. create new site: larasail new example.test
3. attempt to initiate database: larasail database init

Expected behavior

A db and db user is created and the details populated in .env file but user creation fails in MariaDB

Screenshots

Additional context

When WITH mysql_native_password is deleted, both MySQL and MariaDB work fine.

MariaDB knowledgebase also have a large warning discouraging direct use mysql_native_password and encourages the default ed25519. Not sure if the same advise applies to MySQL

It is not recommended to use the mysql_native_password authentication plugin for new installations that require high password security. If someone is able to both listen to the connection protocol and get a copy of the mysql.user table, then the person would be able to use this information to connect to the MariaDB server. The ed25519 authentication plugin is a more modern authentication plugin that provides simple password authentication using a more secure algorithm.

Is your feature request related to a problem? No

PHP 8.1 was recently released and it would be great to be able to use Larasail to provision a php 8.1 server for those of us who develop on the edge

Describe the solution you'd like

Ability to run:

larasail new php81

Describe alternatives you've considered

Installing php then manually upgrading to 8.1 may be an option but 🤷🏻‍♂️

Additional context

I will try work on a PR tonight

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

There are circumstances when the www.$domain is not necessary especially for subdomains e.g app.example.com. For such instances, it'd be amazing to have the option to setup nginx host and Letsencrypt only for the subdomain without necessary needing to add www.app.example.com CNAME. Not doing so, certbot fails during setup

Describe the solution you'd like

If sounds reasonable, am willing to work on a PR that adds an optional parameter whether to add the www.$domain in .larasail/host.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Always adding a www CNAME while setting up even when it's totally unnecessary.

Additional context

I hope the above is sufficient

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

As Laravel Wave is no opensource, it would be nice to have an option to install it via LaraSail.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add an argument to allow Laravel Wave installation rather than plain Laravel installation.

I screwed up by opening a blank project with my actual domain name, and now when I start over it tells me the domain name already exists. Is it possible to delete the existing domain name and start over from scratch?

Describe the bug

To Reproduce

Expected behavior

Screenshots

Desktop

• OS:
• Browser:
• Version:

Smartphone

• Device:
• OS:
• Browser:
• Version:

Additional context

after following instructions, and trying su - larasail, using the password given via larasail pass it fails.

also when trying to connect to the mysqli server it errors, am i doing something wrong?

How do I uninstall Larasail from my machine?

Hello Guys,

Using LARASAIL to install a Server on DO, the apache2 server is being installed.
I think that it's necessary change the install command php7.2 to:
apt-get install php7.2-cli php7.2-fpm. This way will install only php without Apache Server.

I make a mistake to create a website on different folder and when I look on my browser came on a Apache Server Message... It Works..

Thanks for now.

Hi there,

With Laravel 8 out now, it will be nice to have an argument to install Laravel Jetstreamas well.

Hopefully, someone might be up for the challenge 🙌

Add an option to automatically create a new database, a database user and possibly update the database details in the .env file for a specific project

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

As npm is required by Jetstream, it would be nice to have it installed out of the box by LaraSail during the initial server setup.

Describe the solution you'd like

I think that using nvm would be a nice way to go as you can easily change the node versions at any time.

Hey,

just wondering if that would also work with other server providers such as Vultr, Linode, etc...?

Thank you!

Shouldn't there be a command that clears the password files stored in the /etc/.larasail/tmp/ directory? I'm concerned about the security of storing the passwords in plain text on the production server? I'm considering doing a PR to add that command. Correct me if I'm wrong.