in apache2 config file
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
in apache2 config file
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
I have been doing Javascript programming for last 2 months, and haven’t worked on any Laravel application in that time. And when, on this weekend, I tried installing a laravel application, I forgot how to create the virtual host file for it. Because for every application, I like to use a domain, and NOT localhost:port. And I will tell you why we need to do make a domain for your applications.
As good as the php artisan serve command is, it is not going to be responsible for running your application in production mode.
If you have a virtual host setup for your application, let’s say test.site, it will tell your apache server in your machine to act as your server for your application, and you now don’t need to run the serve command and your application is still running.
And the serve command will try to run your application with it’s own settings, and when you move to a server, you will end up with many requirements that you need in order to host your application, and you wouldn’t know about that until you are actually installing your application on a real server.
So, having a real server on your side and running your application on it, gives you a heads up, on what would you need in order to run your application on a real server.
Let’s start with creating a virtual host file.
It is just a symlink to your application which can be accessed via your link, in this case, test.site .
You can find these files inside your /etc/apache2/sites-available folder.
For example let’s create a virtual host file for a laravel application kept in /var/www/html/test
First go to, /etc/apache2/sites-available/ , copy 000-default.conf file or create a new file at that location with the name of the domain you want, i.e., test.site.conf .
Now, for the content of this file, I have created a gist,
| <VirtualHost *:80> | |
| ServerAdmin admin@server.in | |
| ServerName server.in | |
| ServerAlias server.in | |
| <Directory /var/www/html/project/public> | |
| Options Indexes FollowSymLinks | |
| AllowOverride All | |
| Require all granted | |
| </Directory> | |
| DocumentRoot /var/www/html/project/public/ | |
| ErrorLog /var/www/html/project/error.log | |
| CustomLog /var/www/html/project/access.log combined | |
| </VirtualHost> |
from which you can copy the content and paste in the file. Now you can replace the things as you desire.
ServerAdmin — It can be any email, I keep admin@domain.com
ServerName and ServerAlias — It needs to be the url you want, i.e., test.site
You can replace the project with the name of the application i.e., test .
Now you can save the file.
Now you need to tell apache that this conf file ready to be served, so you need to run this command:
sudo a2ensite test.site.conf
sudo service apache2 restart
dont forget to host the domain in host file
sudo nano /var/etc/hosts
update 127.0.1.1 yournewdomain.test (server alice)
a2ensite generally comes with apache installation. But you can install it externally as well.
And also you need to check if rewrites are enabled on the server. This is not the default setting, so you need to enable it.
You can enable the setting by running below command:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart
This rewrite module will help run the links on your server. By that I mean, when you don’t run above command, other than the homepage, no other link in your application will work and you will get this error.


When you enable the rewrite module, it checks the .htaccess file and run all the links.
Now, there is just one step remaining, you need to add an entry in /etc/hosts file like below
127.0.0.1 test.site
This will tell the server, if any request comes from test.site you need to find its settings in conf file(if you find any) and run the appropriate application.
That’s it, now you can create a virtual host file of your own and run your applications like the way any server would do it.
Making a virtual host for you laravel applications can be really good for you in the long run. You can easily install your application on any apache server.
You now don’t need to run php artisan serve . Your application will directly be running and now you have some magic to show to your colleagues.
Happy learning….
PHP and Node.js are both used for the server side development and thus have become a competitor for each other. Below are some differences based on different parameters to understand the two and make decision between the two giants.
Fetching packages
Commands changed in yarn after npm
| COMMAND | NPM | YARN |
|---|---|---|
| Install dependencies | npm install | yarn |
| Install package | npm install package_name npm install package_name@version_number | yarn add package_name yarn add package_name@version_number |
| Uninstall package | npm uninstall package_name | yarn remove package_name |
| Install dev package | npm install package_name –save-dev | yarn add package_name –dev |
| Update dev package | npm update package_name npm update package_name@version_number | yarn upgrade package_name yarn upgrade package_name@version_number |
| View package | npm view package_name | yarn info package_name |
| Global install package | npm install -g package_name | yarn global add package_name |
Commands same for npm and yarn:
| NPM | YARN |
|---|---|
| npm init | yarn init |
| npm run [script] | yarn run [script] |
| npm list | yarn list |
| npm test | yarn test |
| npm link | yarn link |
| npm login or logout | yarn login or logout |
| npm publish | yarn publish |
INTRODUCTION
- Introduction to Laravel.
- Course Outline.
- Familiarise with real world web development.
OOP & DESIGN PATTERNS IN PHP
- Basic Object Oriented Programming Concepts
- Why we need design patterns
- The SOLID design principles
- Creational Design Patterns
- Design patterns (Factory, Abstract Factory, Builder Prototype, Singleton, Prototype, Facades)
SETTING UP LARAVEL ENVIRONMENT
The "Conventional" Way - WAMP/XAMPP
- Composer
- Apache
- MYSQL
- Redis
Using Docker (Bonus)
- DOCKER
- NGINX
- MYSQL
- PHP
- Redis
- LINUX
Introduction to Version Controlling System
- Git
- Github Introduction to AWS
- Free tier account in AWS
- AWS Basics (Regions, Availability Zones, IAM, EC2, ELB)
- SSH into your own EC2 instance
UNDERSTANDING LARAVEL ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS
- Request Lifecycle
- Service Container
- Service Providers
- Facades
- Contracts
SIMPLE TODO APP USING BLADE & BOOTSTRAP
- Database schema design
- Create database tables using migrations
- Configuring Models & Relations
- Web Routing
- Middleware
- Controller
- Authentication
- CRUD with Eloquents & Query Builder
- Views
- Frontend development with blade and JS/JQuery & bootstrap
- Notifications
- Settings
BUILDING AN INSTAGRAM CLONE PART 1 (SYSTEM ANALYSIS)
- Requirements assessment
- Capacity estimations
- Highlevel system & Database design
- Component Design
- Reliability & Consistency
- Performance Optimization Evaluation
BUILDING AN INSTAGRAM CLONE PART 2 (DATABASE AND MODEL CONFIGURATION)
- Schema Design
- Creating migrations using schema definition
- Create and setting up models with relations
BUILDING AN INSTAGRAM CLONE PART 2 (API DEVELOPMENT)
API development in Laravel API Authentication
- OAuth
- Passsport
- Access Tokens Basic API Stuffs
- Routing - API validations & Error Responses Users API
- Sign Up
- Login
- Email Verification (with AWS SES)
- Password Reset (AWS SES)
- Follow/Unfollow user
- User Profile Posts API
- Creating posts - Uploading Images (with AWS S3)
- Optimisation 1: Queue Post Creation (with AWS SQS)
- Fetching posts
- Optimisation 2: Paginate posts
- Rank posts
- Optimisation 3: Schedule post ranking algorithm
- Optimisation 4: Query Caching with Redis
- Post Details Reactions API - Reaction CRUD
- Count Reactions/Post in post list api (Like/Comments)
- Load Reactions in Posts (Dashboard)
- Load paginated comments in post details
BUILDING AN INSTAGRAM CLONE PART 3 (FRONTEND DEVELOPMENT)
- Typescript Basics
- Single Page Application (SPA) vs Server Side Rendering (SSR)
- Setting up SSR with express and nodejs
- Authentication & cookie management
- Express Routing
- Setting up Vue CLI & Vuetify
- Setting up CSS preprocessor (SCSS)
- Configuring API client
- Posting and fetching data with api client
- Component Design
- Data management with VUEX
- Front end Development
- Sing Up/Login Page
- Dashboard with infinite scroll pagination
- Profile Page
- Notifications
- Inbox
- Testing (Unit, E2E)
- Bundling (Webpack) & Production Build
- Continuous integration with CIRCLE CI
DEPLOYMENT AND PERFORMANCE OPTIMISATION
- Deploying in EC2 with manual configuration
- Load Balancing with AWS ELB
CONCLUSION
- Real life software development scenario
- Practical scenario of Agile based development
- Software development etiquettes & manners
"nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config" and "PermitRootLogin yes" for PUTTY access
passwd ----for password change
sudo adduser USERNAME ---for adding new user
usermod -aG sudo USERNAME ---for permission new user
sudo a2ensite your_domain.conf
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-the-apache-web-server-on-ubuntu-18-04
https://www.cloudbooklet.com/upgrade-php-version-to-php-7-4-on-ubuntu/
sudo apt update
sudo apt install curl wget php-cli php-zip php-mbstring git unzip php-xml php7.2-gd
sudo service apache2 restart
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
HASH="$(wget -q -O - https://composer.github.io/installer.sig)"
php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '$HASH') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
sudo php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/sitedomain
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
then
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/sitedomain/public
ServerName sitedomain.com
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/sitedomain.com-access.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/sitedomain.com-error.log
<Directory /var/www/html/sitedomain/public/>
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
sudo service apache2 restart
https://docs.beyondco.de/laravel-websockets/1.0/basic-usage/starting.html#using-a-different-port
MAIL_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=apikey
MAIL_PASSWORD=pass
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
truncate -s0 error.log //for truncate any file
rm storage/logs/laravel-*.log //delete all log file
vim /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
systemctl restart mysql.service
[program:websockets]
command=/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/sitedomain/artisan websockets:serve --port=3030
numprocs=1
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=root
stdout_logfile=/var/www/html/sitedomain/websockets.log
[program:websockets]
command=/usr/bin/php /var/www/sitedomainlive/artisan websockets:serve --port=3030
numprocs=1
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=root
stdout_logfile=/var/www/sitedomainlive/websockets.log
[program:laravel-worker]
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
command=php /var/www/html/sitedomain/artisan queue:work --sleep=3 --tries=3
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=root
numprocs=8
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/var/www/html/sitedomain/worker.log
stopwaitsecs=3600
https://stillat.com/blog/2016/12/07/laravel-task-scheduling-running-the-task-scheduler
crontab -e //adding cron entry to cron tab
sudo service cron restart
[program:laravel_corn]
command=* * * * * php /var/www/html/sitedomain/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
numprocs=1
autostart=true
autorestart=true
startsecs=0
user=www-data
redirect_stderr=true
stderr_logfile = /var/www/html/sitedomain/laravel_corn_err.log
stdout_logfile = /var/www/html/sitedomain/laravel_corn_stdout.log
stdout_logfile_maxbytes=10MB
stdout_logfile_backups=10
sudo supervisorctl reread
sudo supervisorctl update
sudo supervisorctl start laravel-worker:*
sudo supervisorctl start websockets
sudo ufw allow 3030/tcp
nano /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini
max_execution_time = 120
max_input_vars = 2500
memory_limit = 128M
post_max_size = 32M
upload_max_filesize = 24M
max_file_uploads = 100
sudo service apache2 restart
ab -k -n 500 -c 50 http://sitedomain.com/ //apache branch mark testing for 500 request and 50 concurent user
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data storage
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data bootstrap/cache
chmod -R 775 storage
chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache
ps aux | egrep '(apache|httpd)'
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=apikey
MAIL_PASSWORD=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
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data /etc/letsencrypt/live/sitedomain.com
chmod -R 775 /etc/letsencrypt/live/sitedomain.com
//for ssl
LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_HOST=sitedomain.com
LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_SCHEME=https
LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_SSL_LOCAL_CERT=/etc/letsencrypt/live/sitedomain.com/fullchain.pem
LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_SSL_LOCAL_PK=/etc/letsencrypt/live/sitedomain.com/privkey.pem
LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_ENCRYPTED=true
MIX_LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_ENCRYPTED="${LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_ENCRYPTED}"
//withour ssl
LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_HOST=
LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_SCHEME=
LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_SSL_LOCAL_CERT=
LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_SSL_LOCAL_PK=
LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_ENCRYPTED=false
MIX_LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_ENCRYPTED="${LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_ENCRYPTED}"