deployment.md

Deployment

This document describes how to deploy the application to a production environment. The Deployment is usually done through Git mechanism.

Steps

1. Pull the latest changes from the master branch.

   git pull

2. Run the following command to install the dependencies:

   composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader

3. Run the following command to update the database schema:

   php artisan migrate --force

Server Requirements

Software Components

1. PHP >= 8.1
2. PHP Extension Modules
   • BCMath PHP Extension
   • BZip2 PHP Extension
   • Calendar PHP Extension
   • Ctype PHP Extension
   • Curl PHP Extension
   • Date PHP Extension
   • DOM PHP Extension
   • Exif PHP Extension
   • FFI PHP Extension
   • Fileinfo PHP Extension
   • Filter PHP Extension
   • FTP PHP Extension
   • GD PHP Extension
   • GMP PHP Extension
   • Hash PHP Extension
   • Iconv PHP Extension
   • Intl PHP Extension
   • JSON PHP Extension
   • LibXML PHP Extension
   • Mbstring PHP Extension
   • MySQLi PHP Extension
   • OpenSSL PHP Extension
   • PDO PHP Extension
   • PDO_PgSQL PHP Extension
   • PDO_MySQL PHP Extension
   • PDO_SQLite PHP Extension
   • Phar PHP Extension
   • Phar PHP Extension
   • Readline PHP Extension
   • Redis PHP Extension
   • Reflection PHP Extension
   • Session PHP Extension
   • SimpleXML PHP Extension
   • Soap PHP Extension
   • Socket PHP Extension
   • Sodium PHP Extension
   • SPL PHP Extension
   • Tokenizer PHP Extension
   • XML PHP Extension
   • XMLReader PHP Extension
   • XMLWriter PHP Extension
   • XSL PHP Extension
   • Zip PHP Extension
   • Zlib PHP Extension
3. MySQL >= 5.7
4. Apache >= 2.4
5. Cron

    * * * * * php /path/to/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1
   

6. Git

Configuration Requirements

1. SMTP Relay Server
2. S3 Compatible bucket for Backups