This article explains how to deploy a PHP7.4 and Laravel6 project to AWS EC2. Various commands specifying the PHP version are included, making it a useful reference for people using different versions.

Creating and Connecting to EC2

Creating an EC2 Instance

• Access the AWS console.
• Go to the instance screen under the EC2 section.
• Click on "Launch instance" in the top right corner.
• Choose AmazonLinux.
• Select "t2.micro" as it is available in the free tier.

Creating a Security Group in Step 6

• Name the security group.
• Add "HTTP" to the inbound rules.

Creating a Key Pair when Starting up

• Create a key pair with a specified name for SSH connection.

SSH Connection to EC2

• Open terminal.
• Navigate to the folder where the key is saved.
• Change permissions using the command chmod 400 ????.pem.
• Connect to EC2 using the command ssh -i "???.pem" ec2-user@????.ap-northeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com.

Installing PHP7.4

• Install PHP7.4, Apache, and MySQL.
• Use various commands to install PHP7.4 and necessary extensions.

Installing Composer

• Change permissions using sudo chown ec2-user:ec2-user /var/www/html.
• Visit the Composer official website and follow the instructions to install Composer.

Connecting to GitHub via SSH

• Install Git using sudo yum install git.
• Create an SSH key for connecting to GitHub.

Setting up Laravel Environment

• Clone the Laravel project.
• Install dependencies and generate a key for the .env file.

Editing Apache Config File

• Edit the Apache config file to point to the Laravel project's public directory.
• Restart Apache for the changes to take effect.

Setting up RDS for Database

• Create an RDS instance in the AWS console.
• Update the .env file with database connection details.

Bonus: Accessing Database on EC2

• Access the database on EC2 using the command mysql -h <DB instance> -P 3306 -u <username> -p.

This concludes the deployment of a Laravel project on EC2. Additional steps may be required for projects using Laravel-mix with Vue.js, such as installing Node.js separately.