Laravel Forge Recipes

Just a small collection of recipes for repetitive tasks after provisioning a server/app under Laravel Forge. To use any of these, it is recommended to use the contents of the shell script as opposed to the curl snippets. Copy the code and paste under New Recipe in Forge.

System - Stop and Disable Services On Boot (MySQL / Postgres / Beanstalkd / Redis / Memcached)

Will disable and stop services installed by Forge on provisioning but leave nginx alone. Useful if your app already connects to external resources like AWS.

Executes: system-stop-and-disable-services-on-boot.sh

curl -sS "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mojopollo/laravel-forge-recipes/master/system-stop-and-disable-services-on-boot.sh" | sh

Nginx - Set Real visitor ip address from Cloudflare (Enable)

Will create a conf file /etc/nginx/conf.d/cloudflare-set-real-ip.conf with cloudflare's ip addresses and use the CF-Connecting-IP header to set the real ip address then restarts nginx. If cloudflare updates their ip address, all that needs to be done is run this command again to update ip addresses.

Executes: nginx-set-real-visitor-ip-from-cloudflare-enable.php

curl -sS "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mojopollo/laravel-forge-recipes/master/nginx-set-real-visitor-ip-from-cloudflare-enable.php" | php

Nginx - Set Real visitor ip address from Cloudflare (Disable)

Removes /etc/nginx/conf.d/cloudflare-set-real-ip.conf and restarts nginx

Executes: nginx-set-real-visitor-ip-from-cloudflare-disable.sh

curl -sS "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mojopollo/laravel-forge-recipes/master/nginx-set-real-visitor-ip-from-cloudflare-disable.sh" | sh

System - Install PHP Essentials

Will install packages mostly used by php apps and with some other custom packages

Executes: system-install-php-essentials.sh

curl -sS "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mojopollo/laravel-forge-recipes/master/system-install-php-essentials.sh" | sh