Step-by-Step Guide

Connect to Your EC2 Instance via SSH

Replace /path/to/your-key.pem with the path to your SSH key, and your-ec2-instance-public-dns with the public DNS of your EC2 instance.

ssh -i /path/to/your-key.pem ubuntu@your-ec2-instance-public-dns

Restart Apache

Once connected to your EC2 instance via SSH, you can restart Apache using the following command:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

If Apache restarts successfully, you should see no output. If there are errors, they will be displayed in the terminal.

Verify Apache Status (Optional)

To verify that Apache is running without errors, you can check its status:

sudo systemctl status apache2

If Apache is running correctly, you should see an output indicating that Apache is active and running.

Permissions for index.php File

Owner:

The owner should be the user under which your web server (Apache or Nginx) runs. On Ubuntu systems with Apache, this user is typically www-data. For Nginx, it's also www-data.

Permissions:

The recommended permissions for index.php are 644.

This means read and write permissions for the owner (6), and read-only permissions for group and others (4).

Permissions for public Directory

Owner:

The owner should be set to the user under which your web server runs (www-data for Apache or Nginx).

Permissions:

The recommended permissions for the public directory are 755.

This means read, write, and execute permissions for the owner (7), and read and execute permissions for group and others (5).

Setting Permissions

You can set the correct permissions using the following commands. These assume you are logged in via SSH to your EC2 instance and have navigated to your Laravel project directory (/var/www/html/your-laravel-project):

# Navigate to your Laravel project directory

cd /var/www/html/your-laravel-project

# Set the owner of the public directory and index.php to www-data

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data public/index.php

# Set permissions for the public directory and index.php

sudo chmod 755 public

sudo chmod 644 public/index.php

Verification

To verify that the permissions and ownership are set correctly, you can use the following commands:

# Check ownership of index.php

ls -l public/index.php

# Check ownership and permissions of the public directory

ls -ld public

The output should show something similar to:

-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 3482 Jul  1 10:00 public/index.php

drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Jul  1 09:59 public

Step-by-Step Guide

Connect to Your EC2 Instance via SSH

Connect to your EC2 instance using SSH. Replace /path/to/your-key.pem with the path to your SSH key, and your-ec2-instance-public-dns with the public DNS of your EC2 instance.

ssh -i /path/to/your-key.pem ubuntu@your-ec2-instance-public-dns

Navigate to Your Laravel Project Directory

Change to the directory where your Laravel project is located.

cd /var/www/html/your-laravel-project

Clear Laravel Caches

Use the following Artisan commands to clear the various caches:

Clear Application Cache:

php artisan cache:clear

Clear Route Cache:

php artisan route:clear

Clear Configuration Cache:

php artisan config:clear

Clear Compiled Views:

php artisan view:clear

Clear Compiled Classes:

php artisan clear-compiled

Rebuild Configuration Cache (Optional)

After clearing the configuration cache, you might want to rebuild it to improve performance:

php artisan config:cache