Cloudways Setup Guide

LaraPass v2 Setup Guide for Cloudways.

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If you don't already have one, then sign-up for a free Cloudways account by clicking here.

Select your Application >> PHP Custom App
Enter Name for the App and the Server & Select a Project for it.
Select your hosting provider (you can choose from Digital Ocean, Linode, Vultr, AWS & GoogleCloud) - Note: You don't need separate accounts for these, cloudways will pay for and manager all the servers.
Select the Server Size (you can start off with the smallest size and then upgrade to bigger servers when you start getting higher usage).
Select Location (the closest to you).
Click on Launch Now and watch the magic happen (this process will take 5-10 minutes to complete).

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Prepare your server to run LaraPass v2.

Copy the IP Address of the newly deployed server.
Go to your Domain Manager and Add an A record to point your domain to this new server.
Open your App, Go to Domain Management and add your domain/website address there.
Next > Go to SSL Certificate and Add a Let's Encrypt SSL (or if you are using a custom one, you can add that).
Lastly > Go to Application Settings & under WEBROOT add public and Save. The final directory would be public_html/public -

Upload LaraPass v2 files to your cloudways server.

Get the SFTP Login details from the Access Details Section.
Open Cyberduck (or any other SFTP program) & Login using said details.
Navigate to the public_html directory and delete any files inside there.
Upload all the files found in larapass_source folder (that you got from us) into the public_html directory.
And you are done. Navigate to yourdoman.com and you should see the Installation menu.
Lastly, don't forget to copy your MYSQL Database Username and Password from the Access Details page.

{info} You can follow the installation instructions and installation demo video here

Follow the instructions on the Installation page here.

Watch the demo of us setting up our cloudways account server.