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

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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.

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.

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

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

⚙️ How It Works

Here’s what happens under the hood:

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

📂 GitHub Repository

Laravel Server Auto Installer – View on GitHub

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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.

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