The Serverless LAMP stack: Building a serverless Laravel app

This blog post explains these step and concepts in detail: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/the-serverless-lamp-stack-part-4-building-a-serverless-laravel-application/

Deploying Laravel and Bref with AWS SAM

1. Download the Laravel installer using Composer :

   composer global require Laravel/installer
   

2. Install Laravel:

   composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog
   

3. In the Laravel project, install Bref using Composer:

   composer require bref/laravel-bridge
   

4. Clone the AWS SAM template in your application’s root directory

   git clone https://github.com/aws-samples/php-examples-for-aws-lambda
   

5. Deploy the application using the AWS SAM CLI guided deploy:

   sam deploy -g
   

Once AWS SAM deploys the application, it returns the Amazon CloudFront distribution’s domain name. This distribution serves the serverless Laravel application.

Configuring Laravel for Lambda

Add the following to your Laravel .env file:

SESSION_DRIVER=cookie
LOG_CHANNEL=stderr
VIEW_COMPILED_PATH=/tmp/storage/framework/views
FILESYSTEM_DRIVER=s3
FILESYSTEM_DRIVER_PUBLIC=s3
ASSET_URL=https://{YOUR-CLOUDFRONT-DOMAIN}.cloudfront.net

Compiled views

Add the following code to the Providers/AppServiceProvider.php file.

public function boot()
{
   // Make sure the directory for compiled views exist
   if (! is_dir(config('view.compiled'))) {
   mkdir(config('view.compiled'), 0755, true);
   }
}

Public asset files

Change the configuration in config/filesystems.php to the following:

+ 'public' => env('FILESYSTEM_DRIVER_PUBLIC', 'public_local'),
    'disks' => [
        'local' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root' => storage_path('app'),
        ],
-       'public => [
+       'public_local' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
            'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
            'visibility' => 'public',
        ],
        's3' => [
            'driver' => 's3',
            'key' => env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'),
            'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'),
            'token' => env('AWS_SESSION_TOKEN'),
            'region' => env('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION'),
            'bucket' => env('AWS_BUCKET'),
            'url' => env('AWS_URL'),
            'endpoint' => env('AWS_ENDPOINT'),
        ],
+  's3_public' => [
+           'driver' => 's3',
+           'key' => env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'),
+           'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'),
+           'token' => env('AWS_SESSION_TOKEN'),
+           'region' => env('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION'),
+           'bucket' => env('AWS_PUBLIC_BUCKET'),
+           'url' => env('AWS_URL'),
+        ],
    ],

Issue Reporting

If you have found a bug or if you have a feature request, please report them at this repository issues section.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.