Laravel deployment to apache with php-fpm restart - laravel

Question

I'm quite new to laravel and the concept of CI/CD. But I have invested the last 24 hours to get something up and running. Actually I'm using gitlab.com as repo. There I have configured the CI/CD functionality.
The deployments should be done to SRV1 which has configured its corresponding user with a cert. The SRV1 should then clone the necessary files from the gitlab repo by using deployer. The gitlab repo also has the public key from SRV1 user. This chain is working quite good.
The problem is, that after deploying I need to restart php-fpm so that it can reinitialize its symlinks and updates its absolute path cache.
I saw various methodes to overcome this with setting some cgi settings in php-fpm. But these didn't work for me since they all are using nginx, while I'm using apache.
Is there any other way to tell php-fpm with apache to reinitialize its paths or reload after changes?
The method to add the deployer user to the sudoers list and to call service restart php-fpm looks quite hacky to me...
Thanks
UPDATE1:
Actually I found this : https://github.com/lorisleiva/laravel-deployer/blob/master/docs/how-to-reload-fpm.md
It looks like, that deployer has some technique to do this. But this requires the deployer user to have acces to php-fpm reload. Looks a bit unsafe to me.
I didn't found any other solutions. there are some for nginx to tell nginx to always re-evaluate the real path. Obviously for Apache it should be "followSymLink" but it was not working.
Actually I created a bash script which is running under root. this script always check for changes in the "current" symlink every 10 seconds. if there was a change -> reload php-fpm. Not nice, of course quite ugly, but should work.
Still open for other proposals.

Answer 1

I solved this issue on my server by adding a php file that clear APCU & OPCACHE :
<?php
if (in_array(#$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], ['127.0.0.1', '::1']))
{
apcu_clear_cache();
apcu_clear_cache('user');
apcu_clear_cache('opcode');
opcache_reset();
echo "Cache cleared";
}
else
{
die("You can't clear cache");
}
then you have to call it with curl after you updated your symlink :
/usr/bin/curl --silent https://domain.ext/clear_apc_cache.php
I use Gitlab CI/CD it works now for me