By nadavsheer3
Hi, I recently finished developing a Laravel 9 app, using wsl2 and sail, just like I was told in the Laravel documentation. Since it’s my first time deploying to live ever, I ran into some differences with local and production files such as .env, docker-compose.yml and Dockerfile. I tried using guides and tutorials but I can’t seem to make sense as to how to make it work. I have a droplet with a non-root user with sudo privileges, since I used these two kind guides: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-20-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-compose-on-ubuntu-20-04 after finishing with the installation, I tried to clone my app and run it like I do locally, and nothing happened. I realize I can’t use sail on the server, but what is the correct way to make it work?
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Hello,
There are a couple of things that you could do:
- You can deploy your Laravel application without using Docker on your production server. You can follow the steps on how to do that here:
Also, you could automate your server setup by using the following script:
https://github.com/thedevdojo/larasail
- Alternatively, rather than using a Droplet, you could use the DigitalOcean App platform so that you do not have to do any server management and you would also get automated deployments whenever you make changes to your code:
Hope that this helps! Let me know if you have any questions!
Best,
Bobby
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