This topic describes how to deploy a Laravel application to Function Compute. Function Compute provides a method different from traditional deployment methods. You can deploy a traditional Laravel application to Function Compute and use the application for production without performing operations such as purchasing a server. The deployed Laravel application can use the auto scaling, pay-as-you-go, and O&M-free features of Function Compute.

Prerequisites

The following operations are complete:
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For more information about how to migrate Function Compute-related resources from Funcraft to Serverless Devs, see Migrate resources from Funcraft to Serverless Devs.

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Procedure

  1. Run one of the following commands to create a Laravel project. For more information, see Installation. If a Laravel project already exists, skip this step.
    • Command 1
      composer create-project "laravel/laravel=5.8.*" --prefer-dist mylaravel
    • Command 2
      composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist mylaravel "5.8.*"
    • Command 3
      composer create-project "laravel/laravel:5.8.*" --prefer-dist mylaravel
  2. Open the sample project or an existing project.
    cd mylaravel
  3. In the bootstrap directory on your on-premises machine, open the app.php file and add the following code. This way, the storage directory of the Laravel project is placed in the /tmp directory. Function Compute has read and write permissions on the /tmp directory. 
    $app->useStoragePath(env('STORAGE_PATH', dirname(__DIR__) . '/storage'));
    modify-config
  4. Run the on-premises project.
    composer install
  5. Run the fun deploy -y command to deploy the application to Function Compute.
    fun deploy -y
    The following sample code shows the expected output: 
    current folder is not a fun project.
downloading nginx and php7.2 zip from https://gosspublic.alicdn.com/fun/frameworks/support/fun-support-custom-php-d73a6bd6.zip to /private/var/folders/wl/_2ngtj291wx1cj55xlnn290w0000gn/T/fun-support-custom-php-d73a6bd6.zip...
extract nginx and php7.2 zip to custom runtime...
Generating /Users/txd123/Desktop/demo123/mylaravel/.fun/root/etc/php/7.2/fpm/php-fpm.conf...
Generating /Users/txd123/Desktop/demo123/mylaravel/.fun/root/etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf...
Generating /Users/txd123/Desktop/demo123/mylaravel/.fun/root/etc/nginx/nginx.conf...
Generating /Users/txd123/Desktop/demo123/mylaravel/.fun/root/etc/logrotate.d/nginx...
Generating /Users/txd123/Desktop/demo123/mylaravel/.fun/root/etc/logrotate.d/php7.2-fpm...
Generating /Users/txd123/Desktop/demo123/mylaravel/.fun/root/usr/lib/php/7.2/php.ini-production...
Generating /Users/txd123/Desktop/demo123/mylaravel/.fun/root/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/laravel.conf...
Generating /Users/txd123/Desktop/demo123/mylaravel/.funignore...
File /Users/txd123/Desktop/demo123/mylaravel/.funignore already exists, Fun will rename to /Users/txd123/Desktop/demo123/mylaravel/.funignore.bak
Generating /Users/txd123/Desktop/demo123/mylaravel/laravel_bootstrap...
Generating template.yml...
Generate Fun project successfully!

========= Fun will use 'fun deploy' to deploy your application to Function Compute! =========
using region: cn-beijing
using accountId: ***********3743
using accessKeyId: ***********Ptgk
using timeout: 60

Collecting your services information, in order to caculate devlopment changes...

Resources Changes(Beta version! Only FC resources changes will be displayed):
...  ...  ...

Waiting for service mylaravel to be deployed...
       Waiting for function mylaravel to be deployed...
               Waiting for packaging function mylaravel code...
               The function mylaravel has been packaged. A total of 7987 files were compressed and the final size was 32.34 MB
               Waiting for HTTP trigger httpTrigger to be deployed...
               triggerName: httpTrigger
               methods: [ 'GET', 'POST', 'PUT' ]
               trigger httpTrigger deploy success
       function mylaravel deploy success
service mylaravel deploy success

Detect 'DomainName:Auto' of custom domain 'Domain'
Fun will reuse the temporary domain http://19247408-XXX.test.functioncompute.com, expired at 2020-05-22 09:36:48, limited by 1000 per day.

Waiting for custom domain Domain to be deployed...
custom domain Domain deploy succes
  6. Check whether the keepalive_timeout field exists in the laravel.conf file in the /mylaravel/.fun/root/etc/nginx/sites-enabled directory.
    • If the field does not exist, check the expected output provided in Step 5 to find the temporary domain name that is generated by the system. Then, use the temporary domain name to visit the deployed application.
    • If the field exists, delete the field from the file and run the following command: 
      fun deploy -y

      After you deploy the application again, you can find the temporary domain name that is generated by the system in the output. You can use the temporary domain name to visit the deployed application.

    Note The temporary domain name is used only for demonstration and development purposes. It is valid for a limited period of time. You must use a domain name that has obtained an Internet Content Provider (ICP) filing from Alibaba Cloud for production. For more information, see Configure a custom domain name.