Server

Update & Upgrade your server

sudo apt-get update

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" upgrade

Nginx

sudo apt-get install -y nginx

MySql

Installing mysql + set your root password. Do not use CHANGETHIS!

sudo debconf-set-selections <<< "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password CHANGETHIS"
sudo debconf-set-selections <<< "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password CHANGETHIS"

sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server
sudo wget http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-apt-config_0.8.9-1_all.deb
sudo -E dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.9-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server

PHP

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y php7.4-cli php7.4-fpm php7.4-mysql php7.4-curl php-memcached php7.4-dev php7.4-sqlite3 php7.3-mbstring php7.4-xml freetds-common freetds-bin unixodbc php7.4-sybase
sudo apt install -y php7.4-bcmath
sudo apt install -y zip unzip php7.4-zip
sudo apt-cache search php7.4
sudo apt install -y php7.4-zip

For that php.ini

sudo sed -i.bak 's/^;cgi.fix_pathinfo.*$/cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1/g' /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini

Restarting php7.4-fpm

sudo service php7.4-fpm restart

ACL & NPM

sudo apt-get install acl
sudo apt install -y npm

Sendmail

If you don't want to use sendmail, then you dont need to install it. Change the hostname to your own.

sudo apt-get install -y sendmail
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname silkroad-laravel.de

Database

Change CHANGETHIS to your choosen root password.

echo mysql_upgrade -u root -pCHANGETHIS --force
echo "CREATE DATABASE DB_SILKROAD" | mysql -uroot -pCHANGETHIS
echo "FLUSH PRIVILEGES" | mysql -uroot -pCHANGETHIS
echo "ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'root';" | mysql -uroot -pCHANGETHIS

Host configration

If you have an ssl certificate you can use this config:

• Change the ssl_certificate & ssl_certificate_key to your own certificate path.
• Change the root to your project root path.

cat << 'EOF' > /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name localhost;
    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

server {
  listen 443 ssl;

  server_name localhost;

  ssl_certificate     /var/www/ssl-script/silkroad-laravel.crt;
  ssl_certificate_key /var/www/ssl-script/device.key;

    # Useful logs for debug.
    access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost_access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/localhost_error.log;
    rewrite_log on;

    # The location of our projects public directory.
    root  /var/www/public;

    # Point index to the Laravel front controller.
    index index.php index.html;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    # Remove trailing slash to please routing system.
    if (!-d $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
    }

    # PHP FPM configuration.
    location ~* \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }

    # We don't need .ht files with nginx.
    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }

    # Set header expirations on per-project basis
    location ~* \.(?:ico|css|js|jpe?g|JPG|png|svg|woff)$ {
        expires 365d;
    }
}
EOF

Finish

sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php7.4-fpm restart
sudo service mysql restart

Finished with the server Configuration.