OPIUM.PRESS

Deploying your own server

Prerequisites

• PHP 8.1 or higher
• PHP-GD
• Composer
• A database (MariaDB recommended)
• Symfony CLI
• For Production Environments
  • Apache or NGINX

Steps

all commands should be run in the project directory

1. Create .env.local file with the following information

DATABASE_URL=mysql://username:password@serverurlwithport
APP_ENV=[DEV or PROD] # defaults to dev
APP_DEBUG=[1 or 0] # 1 gives you debugging information, defaults to 0
APP_SECRET=[32 character long random string of hex digits]

2. Running composer install

$ composer install

3. Format Database

$ php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force

4. Run the server

$ Symfony server:start