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Laravelify manages the server it is installed on. Use a fresh server dedicated to it: the installer configures nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, Redis, Supervisor, and the firewall.

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Operating system

Other distributions are not supported. The installer uses apt, systemd, and ufw.

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Hardware

Each Laravel site adds its PHP workers and queue processes; each Next.js site adds one Node process. Next.js builds are the heaviest moment: give the server at least 2 GB of free memory for npm run build, or add swap.

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Network

  • Root or sudo access over SSH.
  • Outbound internet (GitHub, package mirrors, Cloudflare, Telegram).
  • A domain on Cloudflare with a tunnel. Laravelify serves sites through Cloudflare tunnels, so no inbound port has to be open for the web. The firewall still allows SSH, 80, and 443.
Do not install Laravelify on a server that already hosts sites with its own nginx or PHP setup. The installer replaces their configuration.

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What you need from Cloudflare

  1. Add the domain to Cloudflare.
  2. Zero Trust → Networks → Tunnels → Create a tunnel (type Cloudflared). Copy the token from the install command Cloudflare shows (the long string after --token).
  3. You add public hostnames for the panel and phpMyAdmin after installing. See Quickstart.