Install Laravel on Infomaniak hosting

This guide concerns Laravel, an open-source web framework written in PHP following the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern. Also, read their documentation.

Prerequisites

• have a Shared Web Hosting or Managed Cloud Server with the latest MySQL/MariaDB
• site running on PHP 8.2
• create an SSH access
• create a database

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For this:

1. SSH into the server
2. Navigate to the site's directory by executing the command cd path-to-site (e.g., cd sites/laravel.domain.xyz)
3. Create a new project by running the command composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

4. Modify the .env file at the root of the hosting to update the connection parameters to the new database:
    

       DB_CONNECTION=mysql
       DB_HOST=xxxx.myd.infomaniak.com
       DB_PORT=3306
       DB_DATABASE= name of the MySQL database (xxxx_newbdd)
       DB_USERNAME= MySQL user with privileges on this database
       DB_PASSWORD= their password

5. Navigate to the project directory and deploy via SSH:
   cd example-app
php artisan migrate
6. Modify the target directory to point to the "public" subdirectory of the project, here /sites/laravel.domain.xyz/example-app/public