How to Deploy Laravel to Production: The Complete Guide for 2026
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Learning how to deploy Laravel to production is one of those milestones that separates developers who build things from developers who ship things. The framework makes local development frictionless: php artisan serve, a .env file, and you're writing features within minutes. Production is a different environment with different rules, different failure modes, and real consequences when something goes wrong. This guide covers the full pipeline: server provisioning, Nginx configuration, environment