Craft CMS

Craft CMS is a versatile and flexible php-based content management system.

In this guide, we'll deploy the Craft CMS Happy Lager Demo.

Prerequisites

Provision a fresh app server in your Cleavr account before continuing.

Step 1: Add New PHP Site

In Cleavr, navigate to the server you provisioned and add a new site.

Configure as follows:

• App Type: PHP
• Domain Name: use your own custom domain or a free Cleavr domain

Under Advanced Options:

• Web Directory: web
• Enable Setup Database
• Database Type: MySQL 8.0
• Database Name: happylager
• Database User:
• Database Password:

Be sure to update database user and password with your own username and password.

Click to Add site.

Once the site installs, go to the Deployments section to configure the deployment workflow.

Step 2: Connect Repository

In the Deployment Workflow > Settings > Code Repository section, select a GitHub VC profile and configure the repo as follows:

• Repository: craftcms/happy-lager
• Branch to Deploy: main

Step 3: Enable Install Composer and Deploy

In the Deployment Hooks section, enable the Install Composer Dependencies deployment hook.

Now, let's do a quick deploy as we'll need the contents of the repository to be on the server for the next steps.

Go to the Deployments section and click Deploy.

Step 4: Add Environment Variables

In Environment tab, add in the following .env variables.

# The environment Craft is currently running in (dev, staging, production, etc.)
ENVIRONMENT=dev

# The application ID used to to uniquely store session and cache data, mutex locks, and more
APP_ID=

# The secure key Craft will use for hashing and encrypting data
SECURITY_KEY=

# Database Configuration
DB_DRIVER=mysql
DB_SERVER=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=happylager
DB_USER=<db-username>
DB_PASSWORD=<password>
DB_SCHEMA=public
DB_TABLE_PREFIX=

# The URI segment that tells Craft to load the control panel
CP_TRIGGER=admin

# The base site URL
SITE_URL=https://example.com

# The asset base path
ASSET_BASE_PATH=./assets

# The asset base URL
ASSET_BASE_URL=/assets

Add a random string of characters for the APP_ID. Also, verify the database configuration variables. Finally, replace SITE_URL variable with the domain for your site.

Step 5: Set Security Key

For the security key, we'll run a command that will create a random key as well as it will automatically add the key to the environment file.

Click on Quick Commands and add a new command and paste in the following command:

php craft setup/security-key

Save and run the command.

Step 6: Import Database

Now, we'll import the happylager.sql file we imported from the code repo into our happylager mysql database.

Let's create a Quick Command for this as well.

Click Add New Quick Commands and add in the following command:

mysql --user=<db-username> --password=<password> happylager < happylager.sql

Save and run the command.

Step 7: Deploy!

You should now be good to deploy! 🚀

To log in, go to append /admin to your domain and then user the following credentials:

• Username: admin
• Password: password