BarCloud is a powerful app based on Laravel & VueJS. Allowed to store, a big quantity of barcodes from multiple users, export in preferably format (pdf, xls/xlsx, csv), search a barcode in the most popular search engine (google/yandex).  

# Introduction

When you’re ready to deploy your Barcloud application, there are some important things you can do to make sure your application is running and deployed properly.

# Requirements

The Barcloud App has a few system requirements. So, you will need to make sure your server meets the following requirements:

# Application Configuration

## Public Directory

After installing, you should configure your web server’s document / web root to be thepublic directory. The index.php in this directory serves as the front controller for all HTTP requests entering your application.

## Directory Permissions

After installing, you may need to configure some permissions. Directories within thestorage and the bootstrap/cachedirectories should be writable by your web server or Laravel will not run.

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/your-project/storage

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/your-project/bootstrap/cache

## Application Key

The next thing you should do after installing Laravel is set your application key to a random string. By thephp artisan key:generate command.

Typically, this string should be 32 characters long. The key can be set in the .env environment file. If you have not copied the .env.example file to a new file named .env, you should do that now. If the application key is not set, your user sessions and other encrypted data will not be secure!

# Database Configuration

## MySQL

Step1: Create a new database via phpmyadmin

Navigate to PHPMyAdmin, Click on the Databases tab and create a new database with your wanted name.

Clicking on create will create a new database in your MySQL.

Step2: Changes in .env configuration file

Once the database is created, you need to tell your project the details about the database.

All configuration that you should stay private and should not share goes into the .env file of your project.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=190.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3066
DB_DATABASE=testProject
DB_USERNAME=youruser
DB_PASSWORD=yourpassword

Modify the following property in your .env file according to your database settings.

## Add search engine configuration

Create a google developer account for a custom search engine https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview

for yandex here https://xml.yandex.com/

GOOGLE_USERNAME=""
GOOGLE_API_KEY=""
GOOGLE_LANG=""

YANDEX_CX=""
YANDEX_API_KEY=""
YANDEX_LANG=""

## Migrate the database and fill with the default data

Run the database migrations 

php artisan migrate

Run the database seeders

php artisan db:seed

# Web Server Configuration

## Local Development Server

If you have PHP installed locally and you would like to use PHP’s built-in development server to serve your application, you may use the serve Artisan command. This command will start a development server at http://localhost:8000:

php artisan serve

## Apache

The project includes a  public/.htaccess file that is used to provide URLs without the index.php front controller in the path. Before serving Barcloud application with Apache, be sure to enable the mod_rewrite module so the .htaccess file will be honored by the server. Follow the following steps.

Step1: Enable the mod rewrite

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Step2: Create the apache configuration file for the barcloudapp

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

sudo nano barcloud.conf

Step3: Add to the barcloud.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName yourdomain.tld

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/your-project/public

    <Directory /var/www/html/your-project>
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Step4: Enable the application 

sudo a2ensite barcloud.conf 

sudo service apache2 restart

# Nginx

If you are deploying your application to a server that is running Nginx, you may use the following configuration file as a starting point for configuring your web server. 

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name bacloud.com;
    root /path/to/barcloud/public;
    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
    index index.html index.htm index.php;
    charset utf-8;
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }
    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    error_page 404 /index.php;
    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
        deny all;
    }
}

 

# Apache Proxy for docker container

If you are deploying your application with docker than here is model of virtual host for apache to expose your docker container

 
 ServerName bacloud.com 
    Allow from localhost
    ProxyPreserveHost On
    ProxyRequests Off
    ProxyPass / http://localhost:8086/
    ProxyPassReverse / https://localhost:8086/

 

# Nginx Proxy for docker container

server {
    server_name barcloud.net;
    listen 80;	
    listen [::]:80;
    location / {
      proxy_set_header Host $host;
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_redirect off;
      proxy_pass http://localhost:8086/;

    }
}

# Installation using Docker(you must to follow the steps from the Application Configuration)

Go to the project directory

cd barcloud-app

Then start the project using docker composer

docker-compose up -d

Run the database migrations inside of docker container

docker-compose exec application php artisan migrate --seed

Well, your application now is running in a docker container and is available at the url http://localhost:8086/

# Demo

Logging In

After db seed in your will be registered:

Username: [email protected] 
Password: 12345

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