Server Setup

You can install Foodomaa on a managed hosting panel or on a plain Linux server. The manual route gives you more control; the panel route is faster if you do not want to manage PHP and MySQL yourself. Either way, the application needs a public HTTPS document root, a database and a scheduler.

Baseline stack

Example: Ubuntu with Nginx

The package names below are examples. Adjust the PHP version to the one supported by your build.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx mysql-server php8.2-fpm php8.2-mysql php8.2-mbstring \
  php8.2-xml php8.2-curl php8.2-zip php8.2-gd php8.2-intl php8.2-bcmath \
  unzip git certbot python3-certbot-nginx

Create the database and a user that has privileges only on that database:

sudo mysql
CREATE DATABASE foodomaa CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
CREATE USER 'foodomaa'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'use-a-long-random-password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON foodomaa.* TO 'foodomaa'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Nginx virtual host

Point the document root at the public directory, never at the application root. A minimal server block:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name foodomaa.example.com;
  root /var/www/foodomaa/public;
  index index.php;

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
  }

  location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* { deny all; }
}

Run sudo nginx -t before reloading. Enable SSL with Certbot or terminate TLS at Cloudflare, then force HTTPS.

PHP settings

memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 20M
post_max_size = 24M
max_execution_time = 120
date.timezone = UTC

Reload PHP-FPM after changes. If uploads fail at 2 MB, the limit is usually PHP, Nginx (client_max_body_size) or Cloudflare, not the application.

Permissions and scheduler

Give the web user write access only to the directories that need it:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/foodomaa
sudo find /var/www/foodomaa -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
sudo find /var/www/foodomaa -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/foodomaa/storage /var/www/foodomaa/bootstrap/cache

Add the scheduler for the web user. Confirm it runs every minute:

* * * * * cd /var/www/foodomaa && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

OPcache and queue

Enable OPcache in production and set opcache.validate_timestamps=0 only if you reset OPcache after every deploy. If your build uses queues, run a worker under systemd or Supervisor and restart it after each release.