Deploy Backpack for Laravel in production

[AlonMoshe]

Bug report

What I did

1. Started a new Laravel project: composer create-project laravel/laravel:^11.0 example-app
2. Create a model and migration
3. set .env
4. Installed backpack:
   composer require backpack/crud
php artisan backpack:install

What I expected to happen

When I browse to app_url/admin I expect to see backpack login page.

What happened

when I browse to app_url/admin, I get "The requested URL was not found on this server." instead. If I browse to app_url I see Laravel screen

What I've already tried to fix it

1. Make sure permission and ownership of files are ok.
2. Firewall is open
3. Experimenting, I noticed that if in the .env file environment is set to production, backpack will not install , i.e., the installation gets stuck.

Is it a bug in the latest version of Backpack?

Yes

Just for the record, the system on which I am working is a VPS, AlmaLinux 8.9

After I run composer update backpack/crud the bug... is it still there?

Yes.

However, I get a message from composer that reads:

Composer could not detect the root package (laravel/laravel) version, defaulting to '1.0.0'. See https://getcomposer.org/root-version
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Nothing to modify in lock file
Installing dependencies from lock file (including require-dev)
Nothing to install, update or remove
Generating optimized autoload files

Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump
@php artisan package:discover --ansi

INFO Discovering packages.

backpack/basset ............................................................................................................................. DONE
backpack/crud ............................................................................................................................... DONE
backpack/generators ......................................................................................................................... DONE
backpack/theme-tabler ....................................................................................................................... DONE
creativeorange/gravatar ..................................................................................................................... DONE
laravel/sail ................................................................................................................................ DONE
laravel/tinker .............................................................................................................................. DONE
nesbot/carbon ............................................................................................................................... DONE
nunomaduro/collision ........................................................................................................................ DONE
nunomaduro/termwind ......................................................................................................................... DONE
prologue/alerts ............................................................................................................................. DONE
spatie/laravel-ignition ..................................................................................................................... DONE

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@php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-assets --ansi --force

INFO No publishable resources for tag [laravel-assets].

No security vulnerability advisories found.

Backpack, Laravel, PHP, DB version

When I run php artisan backpack:version the output is:

PHP VERSION:

8.3.6

PHP EXTENSIONS:

Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, json, pcntl, random, readline, Reflection, SPL, session, standard, sockets, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, mbstring, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, iconv, exif, mysqlnd, PDO, Phar, SimpleXML, sodium, sqlite3, tokenizer, xml, xmlwriter, xsl, mcrypt, mysqli, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, xmlreader, zip, Zend OPcache

LARAVEL VERSION:

11.3.1.0

BACKPACK PACKAGE VERSIONS:

backpack/basset: 1.3.1
backpack/crud: 6.7.6
backpack/generators: v4.0.5
backpack/theme-tabler: 1.2.8

Many thanks,

Alon.

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[pxpm]

Hey @AlonMoshe

Thanks for the question. Indeed, you shouldn't "install" backpack in production. The installation process should be run only locally first time you require the package.

When you deploy to production the steps should be more or less like this:

• clone your app repo
• composer install --no-dev --no-interaction --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader
• php artisan migrate --force
• php artisan basset:clear && php artisan basset:cache ### this is the only thing related to backpack, the rest is Laravel standard. ###
• php artisan optimize:clear

There may be some additional steps that may be required depending on your project like restarting the queue workers etc, but that's outside of backpack scope.

Let me know if that helps.

Cheers

[AlonMoshe]

Hi @pxpm, thanks for the response.

Problem solved.

The problem was with my Virtualhost configuration in Apache.

Once again, many thanks.

[AlonMoshe]

Problem Solved - Solution was in Virtualhost configuration of Apache.