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Laravel FTP Deployer

A professional tool for managing Laravel applications on restricted hosting environments by executing Artisan commands and synchronizing files via an FTP-to-HTTP bridge.

The Problem

Modern Laravel development relies heavily on the Artisan CLI for essential tasks such as database migrations, clearing caches, and managing maintenance mode. However, many shared hosting providers restrict server access to FTP/SFTP only, completely omitting SSH access.

This limitation creates a significant "deployment gap" where database syncing, maintenance control, and cache management become difficult and error-prone.

The Solution: ZIP + Manifest Workflow

This package provides a high-performance deployment strategy:

  1. Pre-Deployment Optimization: The script automatically runs php artisan optimize:clear locally to ensure no cached configuration paths are zipped and deployed to the remote server.
  2. Incremental Detection: The tool uses a local .deploy_manifest.json to track file content changes using MD5 hashes.
  3. Efficient Packaging: Only new or modified files (detected by hash mismatch) are added to a timestamped deploy_{timestamp}.zip archive.
  4. Atomic Upload: The single ZIP file is uploaded via FTP (much faster than thousands of small files).
  5. Remote Extraction & Permissions: A temporary PHP helper script is uploaded to extract the ZIP. It then automatically sets chmod 775 on the remote storage/ and bootstrap/cache/ directories to prevent permission errors.
  6. Cache Purging: The helper script manually deletes Laravel's bootstrap/cache files using native PHP. This prevents fatal "ReflectionException" errors that occur when Artisan tries to boot with a stale cache.
  7. Post-Extraction Tasks: While the app is in maintenance mode, it runs a sequence of Artisan commands (migrations, cache clearing, etc.).
  8. Auto-Cleanup: Both the ZIP and the helper script are deleted immediately after execution.

Installation

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Configuration

Environment Variables

The tool automatically detects your credentials. It searches for a .env.prod file first (recommended for security), and falls back to .env if it's not found:

Deployment Configuration (deploy.json)

The tool will automatically create a deploy.json file in your project root on its first run if it is missing. You should review this file to manage exclusions and remote Artisan commands:

Usage

CLI Commands

Help (Display usage and available commands):

Full Deployment (Code Sync + Post-Extraction Commands):

Custom Command Set (Executes a specific group from custom_commands without syncing files):

Remote Artisan Runner (Runs only allowlisted command sets from deploy.json):

This binary will refuse unknown names and only executes command groups defined under custom_commands.

Remote Tinker Runner (Paste a one-off PHP snippet to run inside Laravel):

This is for trusted snippets only. Like the artisan runner, it uses a one-time token in the Authorization header and deletes the helper after execution.

First-Time / Forced Sync:

Note on First-Time Deployments: Using --first-time (or -f) aggressively bypasses your standard deploy.json exclusion rules. It forces the inclusion of the vendor and storage directories (ignoring only .git, node_modules, tests, and .env files). It follows symlinks and deletes your local .deploy_manifest.json to guarantee a 100% fresh hash state. This is highly recommended when deploying to a brand new, empty server.

Manage Environment Variables Interactively: To quickly add or update keys in your remote .env file, you can use the included update-env utility. It connects via FTP, modifies the remote file, and uploads it securely:

It will prompt you for the variable name and value, and update or append it automatically on your remote server.

If you want to run remote Artisan commands without using the deploy workflow, define them in deploy.json and invoke them through vendor/bin/remote-artisan. The helper script uses a one-time authorization token sent in the Authorization header, not in the URL, and deletes itself after execution.

For ad hoc inspection or data fixes, vendor/bin/remote-tinker accepts pasted PHP from stdin or a file. It is not a sandbox; it runs the snippet with full application privileges on the remote server.

Programmatic Usage

Donations & Custom Projects

If you find this tool useful and would like to support its development, or if you need a custom deployment solution for your specific infrastructure, feel free to reach out:

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License

The MIT License (MIT).

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