Deploying Laravel with Nginx on Ubuntu 24.04

Laravel is a popular PHP framework with routing, authentication, and database management built in. This guide deploys a Laravel app behind Nginx on Ubuntu 24.04, wires it to MySQL, secures it with Let's Encrypt, and builds a small dashboard that queries live data. Prerequisites: Ubuntu 24.04 with Nginx and MySQL installed, a non-root sudo user, a domain A record (e.g. app.example.com ). Create the Database $ sudo mysql mysql > CREATE DATABASE laravel_demo ; mysql > CREATE USER 'laravel_user' @ 'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'secure_password' ; mysql > GRANT ALL ON laravel_demo . * TO 'laravel_user' @ 'localhost' ; mysql > FLUSH PRIVILEGES ; mysql > EXIT ; Seed a demo table to query later: $ mysql -u laravel_user -p mysql > USE laravel_demo ; mysql > CREATE TABLE server_stats ( id INT AUTO_INCREMENT , server_name VARCHAR ( 255 ), region VARCHAR ( 255 ), cpu_usage DECIMAL ( 5 , 2 ), memory_usage DECIMAL ( 5 , 2 ), status ENUM ( 'active' , 'maintenance' , 'offline' ), last_updated TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , PRIMARY KEY ( id ) ); mysql > INSERT INTO server_stats ( server_name , region , cpu_usage , memory_usage , status ) VALUES ( 'app-01' , 'us-east' , 24 . 50 , 45 . 30 , 'active' ), ( 'db-01' , 'eu-west' , 12 . 75 , 78 . 20 , 'active' ), ( 'web-01' , 'ap-south' , 65 . 80 , 89 . 50 , 'active' ); mysql > EXIT ; Install Composer and PHP Extensions $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install composer php php-curl php-fpm php-bcmath php-json php-mysql php-mbstring php-xml php-tokenizer php-zip -y $ composer --version $ php --version $ sudo systemctl restart php8.3-fpm php-fpm runs PHP as a service Nginx can talk to; php-mysql / php-mbstring / php-xml / php-tokenizer / php-zip cover Laravel's runtime requirements. Create the Laravel Project $ cd ~ $ composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravel-demo $ cd laravel-demo $ php artisan key:generate Edit .env : $ nano .env APP_NAME = laravel-demo APP_ENV = development APP_KEY = base64:APP