Dokku_Laravel/README.md

Dokku Laravel

A base repo for a Laravel app with MySql under Nginx on Dokku server.

Considering you already have Dokku Installed.

From your local environment pull this branch and run:

1. composer install
2. artisan serve
3. Copy your APP_KEY from .env file.

From the dokku server

1. Create the app: dokku apps:create myapp
2. Create the env variable you copied from local: dokku config:set detective APP_KEY={you_key}
3. Create a db : dokku mysql:create myapp_db
4. Link with the app: dokku mysql:link myapp_db myapp
5. Get the created db information: dokku mysql:info myapp_db --dsn
6. Create the env variable expected on config/database: dokku config:set detective DATABASE_URL={the_url_above}