Deployment Documentation

Overview

This document provides a step-by-step guide for deploying a PHP application that uses:

• PHP version: 8.2
• MySQL version: 8.2
• Redis for caching
• SMTP for email notifications

Prerequisites

Before deploying the application, ensure the following software is installed on your server:

• PHP 8.2: Ensure PHP 8.2 is installed with required extensions ex (mysql, redis,..).
• MySQL 8.2: Install MySQL version 8.2 for database management.
• Redis: Install Redis for caching and session storage.
• Web Server: Apache or Nginx configured to serve PHP applications.

Configure your Project

After clonong project from git you need to do the following:

1. To install composer, run:

composer install

2. Change Database Config in env file :

go to config/env.php

'DB_HOST' => 'localhost:3306',
'DB_USER' => 'root',
'DB_PASS' => '',   

3. Change Redis Config in env file :

go to config/env.php

'REDIS_HOST'=>'',
'REDIS_PORT'=>'',
'REDIS_PASSWORD'=>''

4. Change Smtp Config in env file :

go to config/env.php

'MAIL_HOST' => '',
'MAIL_USERNAME' => '',
'MAIL_PASSWORD' => '',
'MAIL_PORT' => 465, 
'MAIL_ENCRYPTION' => 'ssl', 

5. You can change Rate Limit and throttling rules in env file :

go to config/env.php

  'RATE_LIMIT' => 5,
'TIME_FRAME_IN_SECONDS' => 60,
'throttle' => [
    'create' => [
        'count' => 10,
        'time_frame' => 30
    ],
    'update' => [
        'count' => 5,
        'time_frame' => 60
    ],
    'delete' => [
        'count' => 3,
        'time_frame' => 60
    ]
],

6. You can Can build your datbase structure into your database by run :

 php database/CreateTables.php

7. You can Can seed your data to your database by run :

 php database/seed.php

8. You can download postman collection to test the backend

9. Change your app url into base_url variable which exist in Environement