如何使用composer和FTP部署Laravel 5

Question

I built a project using Laravel 5 on my dev machine and now I'd like to deploy it. One solution that came to my mind is to upload everything using FTP but I guess there is a better way.

I uploaded the composer.json but I receive tons of errors. I have ssh/root access but using GIT is not an option.

Answer 1

Make sure you can use composer binary on your server and you are set

• upload every file except vendor folder (you may use some FTPS manager that reads git-ignore file and does not upload ignored files)
• set permissions to ./storage folder (browse thru this severfault thread )
• make sure your web server root is ./public
• create env file (that is not going to be changed ever, until you want) and do not overwrite it with "local" env file .
• $ composer install (installs everything from composer.lock)
• $ composer update (updates from repositories again, do test on local before updating on production)