laravel and digitalocean install lamp

Question

hey guys im trying to install laravel 5.1 on my digitalocean droplet and I've done the following steps

1.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

2. enable the Apache mod_rewrite module

sudo a2enmod rewrite

3 - to know your mysql password

cat /etc/motd.tail

4 - to change your password

mysqladmin -u root -p'password' password newpassword

5 - install Composer, run these commands:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

6 - if you're using Git you can install it very easily:

sudo apt-get install git

7 - now go to /var/www to install first app

cd /var/www
composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name --prefer-dist

if got a error when run above command Error like this: The following exception is caused by a lack of memory and not having swap configured you can use for example, to enable the swap

cd~
/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
/sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
/sbin/swapon /var/swap.1

8 - Apache vHost PHP Files

Check Apache virtual hosts that come out of the box. Available ones are in sites-available while enabled ones are symlinked from sites-available to sites-enabled.

We'll create new virtual host at /etc/apache2/sites-available/my_app.conf:

sudo nano ../etc/apache2/sites-available/my_app.conf

and paste

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName my-site.com
    ServerAlias Xxx.ZxZ.1X7.XxX #your server ip

    DocumentRoot /var/www/your-project-name/public
    <Directory /var/www/your-project-name/public>
        # Don't show directory index
        Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews

        # Allow .htaccess files
        AllowOverride All

        # Allow web access to this directory
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    # Error and access logs
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/my-site.error.log
    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/my-site.access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Now Enable the Virtual Host using Apache's tool that comes with the Ubuntu package of Apache2:

# Symlink it to sites-enabled directory
sudo a2ensite my_app

# Reload Apache so the new configuration is loaded
sudo service apache2 reload

all of this info was copied from here https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/install-laravel-on-digitalocean-by-lamp

after all of these steps my domain still points to

var/www/html/index.php

which is the Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page. I even tried configuring the apache file to my work environment and it still points to that directory. Any ideas? thanks!

UPDATED VHOST FILE which is still not working

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName my-site.com
    ServerAlias 159.203.224.150 #your server ip

    DocumentRoot /var/www/collabbro/public
    <Directory /var/www/collabbro/public>
        # Don't show directory index
        Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews

        # Allow .htaccess files
        AllowOverride All

        # Allow web access to this directory
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    # Error and access logs
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/my-site.error.log
    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/my-site.access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

UPDATED AGAIN this time i followed this tutorial here

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin example@gmail.com
        ServerName example.com
        ServerAlias www.example.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/example/public
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

now I am getting a 500 Server Error

Answer 1

i fixed the solution with these following links

Configuring my apache

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts

and then properly deploying laravel 5.1

https://medium.com/laravel-news/the-simple-guide-to-deploy-laravel-5-application-on-shared-hosting-1a8d0aee923e#.fasm9hfx5

hope this helps people in the future