Installation

One command installs the panel and everything your sites need.

Install

SSH into the server as a user that can use sudo, then run:

curl -fsSL https://cdn.laravelify.cloud/install.sh | sudo bash

The installer asks for:

Prompt	Example	Used for
MySQL root password (twice)	a long random password	MySQL root, phpMyAdmin sign-in, site databases
Laravelify panel domain	panel.example.com	The panel’s address
phpMyAdmin domain	db.example.com	phpMyAdmin’s address
Cloudflare tunnel token	eyJh…	Connects the server to Cloudflare

When it finishes it prints the panel URL. Open https://panel.example.com/setup to create the admin account and turn on two-factor authentication.

Running it again

If Laravelify is already installed, running the install command again only updates it. It shows the installed and new version and asks Update Laravelify only? [Y/n]. Packages such as PHP, MySQL, Node, and pm2 are not checked or reinstalled. Answer n, or run with LARAVELIFY_REINSTALL=1, to repair the whole install.

A repair run skips what is already installed, and nothing needs retyping: it shows the answers from last time and asks whether to use them.

Found the settings from a previous install:
  Panel domain:            panel.example.com
  phpMyAdmin domain:       db.example.com
  MySQL root password:     ******** (saved)
  Cloudflare tunnel token: ******** (saved)
Use these settings? [Y/n]

Press Enter to reuse them, or type n to answer every question again. The answers are kept in /etc/laravelify/install.env, readable only by root; the uninstaller removes it.

Unattended install

Every prompt can be given as an environment variable, which is handy for provisioning scripts:

curl -fsSL https://cdn.laravelify.cloud/install.sh | sudo \
  MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD='change-me' \
  PANEL_DOMAIN=panel.example.com \
  PHPMYADMIN_DOMAIN=db.example.com \
  CLOUDFLARE_TUNNEL_TOKEN='eyJh…' \
  bash

Variable	Default	Description
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD	asked	MySQL root password (no spaces)
PANEL_DOMAIN	asked	Panel hostname
PHPMYADMIN_DOMAIN	asked	phpMyAdmin hostname (different from the panel)
CLOUDFLARE_TUNNEL_TOKEN	asked	Tunnel token
LARAVELIFY_VERSION	latest	Release to install, like 1.2.0
LARAVELIFY_REPO	the official repository	GitHub owner/name to download releases from (for forks)
LARAVELIFY_SOURCE	—	Install from a local folder instead (development)
LARAVELIFY_ARCHIVE_URL	—	Install from any .tar.gz URL instead

What gets installed

Web and PHP

• nginx, the web server for every site, the panel, and phpMyAdmin.
• PHP-FPM 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 (whichever the PHP repository still publishes for your Ubuntu), with the common extensions Laravel needs.
• Composer.

Data

• MySQL 8.4 LTS (Ubuntu’s MySQL as a fallback), with the root password you chose.
• Redis, used by the panel for sessions and queues and available to your sites.
• phpMyAdmin on its own domain, with one-click sign-in from the panel.

Node and processes

• Node.js 20, 22, and 24 (through n) and PM2 for Next.js sites.
• Supervisor, which runs the panel’s laravelify-queue (deploys) and laravelify-scheduler (monitoring, alerts), plus each Laravel site’s workers.

Network and security

• cloudflared, connected with your tunnel token.
• ufw firewall: deny incoming by default, allow SSH (22), 80, and 443.
• A sudoers rule that lets the panel (www-data) run only scripts/host-apply.sh as root. That script validates every argument before it touches the system.

The panel lives in /opt/laravelify. Sites live in /var/www/{slug}.

After installing

1. Add the public hostnames in Cloudflare

   Tunnel → Public hostnames: panel.example.com → http://localhost:80 and db.example.com → http://localhost:80.

2. Create the admin and enable 2FA

   Open https://panel.example.com/setup.

3. Set a Redis password

   Redis starts without a password. Set one under Server → Redis.