Deploy Laravel on EC2 with Nginx - Step by Step Guide For Absolute Beginners

If you have been trying to find a resource that teaches you step-by-step how to deploy and configure an NGINX server on an AWS EC2 instance running a Laravel backend, then this video is for you.
Server configuration script: github.com/eko...
Timestamps:
01:06 - Architecture breakdown
04:05 - Setting up Laravel project with Laravel Herd
8:08 - Creating Github repository
12:54 - Brief introduction to AWS
15:41 - Deploying a new server on AWS (EC2 t2.micro)
37:06 - Connecting to instance, Installing PHP, Composer & Nginx
49:47 - Cloning and setting up Laravel project on EC2 server
55:33 - Permissions for storage and bootstrap folders
59:54 - Installing Laravel project dependencies
1:00:39 - Configuring Nginx, explanation of directives and config options
1:25:50 - Additional configuration for PHP-FPM
1:28:07 - Final results
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[@emperorchris1693]

Thank you very much. This is exactly the kind of video i was looking for. Please keep making videos like this

[@ahmadmaghrapy]

thanks pro, I was looking for a video like this. keep making content like this.

[@gbafful]

Glad you like this video. Definitely more coming

[@sivadathp163]

mine its showing that 502 bad gateway
nginx/1.26.2
😭

[@TheodoreBagwell-em3fs]

My laravel.log file isn't creating in the storage/logs/ folder, any idea why?

[@gbafful]

Can you try manually triggering an exception to see if it gets created?

[@emperorchris1693]

Also teach how to install and connect to mysql database

[@gbafful]

Connecting to the mysql db from EC2?

[@emperorchris1693]

@gbafful yes

[@gbafful]

👍 Alright

[@gbafful]

I got that in my backlog 😃