🚀 Laravel Server Auto-Installer – Deploy Laravel on a Fresh VPS in Minutes!

Introduction

Setting up a production-ready Laravel server from scratch can be a real headache — from installing PHP and Nginx to configuring SSL, Redis, and MySQL, it can easily take hours.

I’ve been working with Laravel and server administration for over a decade, and I’ve faced this challenge countless times. That’s why I created a fully automated Laravel Server Installer: a single Bash script that sets up your entire environment in under 10 minutes.

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Why This Script?

If you’ve ever done a manual Laravel deployment, you know the pain:

• Installing & configuring Nginx with PHP-FPM
• Setting up MySQL securely
• Enabling SSL with Let’s Encrypt
• Installing Redis, Memcached, Composer, Node.js, and more
• Configuring Supervisor for Laravel queues
• Setting up backups and security

This script handles all of that automatically so you can focus on coding, not server setup.

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Key Features

✅ Nginx + PHP 8.3 with optimal PHP settings

✅ MySQL secure installation + optimization config

✅ Redis & Memcached for caching

✅ phpMyAdmin integrated into the same vhost

✅ Let’s Encrypt SSL via webroot method

✅ Supervisor configuration for Laravel queues

✅ Daily automatic backups (files + MySQL)

✅ Full logging and saved credentials

✅ Swap memory setup for better performance

✅ Ready for Ubuntu 20.04 & 22.04

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Installation Guide

⚠ Requirements:

• Fresh Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 server (root access)
• A domain name pointing to your server’s IP
• Basic knowledge of SSH

# Download the installer
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mehrdad03/laravel-server-auto-installer/main/laravel-installer.sh

# Make it executable
chmod +x laravel-installer.sh

# Run the installer
sudo ./laravel-installer.sh

During installation, the script will:

✅ Ask for your main domain and SSL email

✅ Install & configure all required services

✅ Save all generated credentials in /root/server-credentials.txt

✅ Set up automatic backups and security

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⚙️ How It Works

Here’s what happens under the hood:

1. System Preparation – Updates packages, sets timezone, creates swap file
2. Security Setup – Firewall (UFW) configuration, SSH adjustments
3. Nginx & PHP – Installs PHP 8.3 + extensions, configures Nginx vhost
4. SSL – Automatically issues and configures Let’s Encrypt certificate
5. MySQL – Secure installation + optimization config file
6. phpMyAdmin – Integrated and protected under /phpmyadmin
7. Caching – Redis & Memcached installation and tuning
8. Supervisor – Config for Laravel queue workers
9. Developer Tools – Composer, Node.js LTS, Yarn, PM2
10. Backup Setup – Daily backup cron jobs for files and databases

📂 GitHub Repository

Laravel Server Auto Installer – View on GitHub

⭐ If you find it useful, please give the repo a star — it really helps others discover the project.

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👨‍💻 About the Author

Hi, I’m Mehrdad Dadashi — a Laravel specialist with over 7 years of coding experience.

I help developers and companies build high-performance Laravel apps.

💬 Connect with me:

• GitHub: https://github.com/mehrdad03/laravel-server-auto-installer
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehrdaddadashi/

Comments

[Lamri Abdellah Ramdane]

This is a fantastic tool for Laravel developers. It highlights a common problem of complex server setup and provides a single, powerful script to automate the entire process. This is exactly what Servbay is all about. It gives you a complete, pre-configured local development environment, so you can focus on building your app without the setup headaches, making it a perfect companion for a tool like this.

[Mehrdad Dadashi]

Thank you so much for the detailed feedback, Lamri! 🙏 I totally agree — setting up a Laravel server manually can be time-consuming, and that’s exactly why I built this auto-installer. It’s great to hear you see the potential. Do you already use Servbay or a similar setup in your workflow?