Hi @vincej,

I can see you’ve asked a similar question here - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-create-a-staging-server,

I’ve answered it however, I’ll post my answer here as well:
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Firstly, you’ll need to create a droplet with a LAMP stack - Apache,MySql,PHP. You can use the following article to achieve that :

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-ubuntu-18-04

Once you have it, you should be able to use a program like Visual Studio Code alongside SSHFS to connect remotely to your laravel project and develop it.

Regards,
KDSys
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