Impossible to make laravel works on Azure Web App Linux - laravel

Question

I activated a Web App (linux) on Azure.
Then i imported a Laravel 5.8 fresh installation from local to the app trough FTP.
In local the app works instead on azure i get 500 error when i try to reach the homepage.
Laravel 5.8 has already a web.config file into the public folder so i guess that is not the missing of that file, but should be something else related to the fact that the server is IIS and not Apache.
Any help will be (very) appreciated.

Answer 1

I'm going to assume you've already logged into the Azure SSH Terminal and installed Composer and Node.js already.
From the Microsoft documentation :
Step 1:
Login to the Azure CLI
Step 2:
Configure a deployment user
az webapp deployment user set --user-name <username> --password <password>
Step 3:
Create a resource group
az group create --name myResourceGroup --location "West Europe"
Step 4:
Create an Azure App Service Plan
az appservice plan create --name myAppServicePlan --resource-group myResourceGroup --sku B1 --is-linux
Step 5:
Create a web app
# Bash
az webapp create --resource-group myResourceGroup --plan myAppServicePlan --name <app_name> --runtime "PHP|7.0" --deployment-local-git
# PowerShell
az --% webapp create --resource-group myResourceGroup --plan myAppServicePlan --name <app_name> --runtime "PHP|7.0" --deployment-local-git
Step 6:
Place the following inside an .htcaccess file inside your Laravel root directory
This part isn't in the documentation, but it's what solved the issue for me
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Step 7:
Head over and check out projectkudu over at Github.
Basically two files, .deployment and deploy.sh are added to your Laravel root directory.
Contents of .deployment:
[config]
command = bash deploy.sh
Contents of deploy.sh
#!/bin/bash
# ----------------------
# KUDU Deployment Script
# Version: 0.2.2
# ----------------------
# Helpers
# -------
exitWithMessageOnError () {
if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "An error has occurred during web site deployment."
echo $1
exit 1
fi
}
# Prerequisites
# -------------
# Verify node.js installed
hash node 2>/dev/null
exitWithMessageOnError "Missing node.js executable, please install node.js, if already installed make sure it can be reached from current environment."
# Setup
# -----
SCRIPT_DIR="${BASH_SOURCE[0]%\\*}"
SCRIPT_DIR="${SCRIPT_DIR%/*}"
ARTIFACTS=$SCRIPT_DIR/../artifacts
KUDU_SYNC_CMD=${KUDU_SYNC_CMD//\"}
if [[ ! -n "$DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE" ]]; then
DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE=$SCRIPT_DIR
fi
if [[ ! -n "$NEXT_MANIFEST_PATH" ]]; then
NEXT_MANIFEST_PATH=$ARTIFACTS/manifest
if [[ ! -n "$PREVIOUS_MANIFEST_PATH" ]]; then
PREVIOUS_MANIFEST_PATH=$NEXT_MANIFEST_PATH
fi
fi
if [[ ! -n "$DEPLOYMENT_TARGET" ]]; then
DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=$ARTIFACTS/wwwroot
else
KUDU_SERVICE=true
fi
if [[ ! -n "$KUDU_SYNC_CMD" ]]; then
# Install kudu sync
echo Installing Kudu Sync
npm install kudusync -g --silent
exitWithMessageOnError "npm failed"
if [[ ! -n "$KUDU_SERVICE" ]]; then
# In case we are running locally this is the correct location of kuduSync
KUDU_SYNC_CMD=kuduSync
else
# In case we are running on kudu service this is the correct location of kuduSync
KUDU_SYNC_CMD=$APPDATA/npm/node_modules/kuduSync/bin/kuduSync
fi
fi
# Node Helpers
# ------------
selectNodeVersion () {
if [[ -n "$KUDU_SELECT_NODE_VERSION_CMD" ]]; then
SELECT_NODE_VERSION="$KUDU_SELECT_NODE_VERSION_CMD \"$DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE\" \"$DEPLOYMENT_TARGET\" \"$DEPLOYMENT_TEMP\""
eval $SELECT_NODE_VERSION
exitWithMessageOnError "select node version failed"
if [[ -e "$DEPLOYMENT_TEMP/__nodeVersion.tmp" ]]; then
NODE_EXE=`cat "$DEPLOYMENT_TEMP/__nodeVersion.tmp"`
exitWithMessageOnError "getting node version failed"
fi
if [[ -e "$DEPLOYMENT_TEMP/.tmp" ]]; then
NPM_JS_PATH=`cat "$DEPLOYMENT_TEMP/__npmVersion.tmp"`
exitWithMessageOnError "getting npm version failed"
fi
if [[ ! -n "$NODE_EXE" ]]; then
NODE_EXE=node
fi
NPM_CMD="\"$NODE_EXE\" \"$NPM_JS_PATH\""
else
NPM_CMD=npm
NODE_EXE=node
fi
}
##################################################################################################################################
# Deployment
# ----------
echo Handling node.js deployment.
# 1. KuduSync
if [[ "$IN_PLACE_DEPLOYMENT" -ne "1" ]]; then
"$KUDU_SYNC_CMD" -v 50 -f "$DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE" -t "$DEPLOYMENT_TARGET" -n "$NEXT_MANIFEST_PATH" -p "$PREVIOUS_MANIFEST_PATH" -i ".git;.hg;.deployment;deploy.sh"
exitWithMessageOnError "Kudu Sync failed"
fi
# 2. Select node version
selectNodeVersion
# 3. Install NPM packages
if [ -e "$DEPLOYMENT_TARGET/package.json" ]; then
cd "$DEPLOYMENT_TARGET"
eval $NPM_CMD install --production
exitWithMessageOnError "npm failed"
cd - > /dev/null
fi
# 4. Install Bower modules
if [ -e "$DEPLOYMENT_TARGET/bower.json" ]; then
cd "$DEPLOYMENT_TARGET"
eval ./node_modules/.bin/bower install
exitWithMessageOnError "bower failed"
cd - > /dev/null
fi
# 5. Install Composer modules
if [ -e "$DEPLOYMENT_TARGET/composer.json" ]; then
cd "$DEPLOYMENT_TARGET"
eval php composer.phar install
exitWithMessageOnError "composer failed"
cd - > /dev/null
fi
##################################################################################################################################
# Post deployment stub
if [[ -n "$POST_DEPLOYMENT_ACTION" ]]; then
POST_DEPLOYMENT_ACTION=${POST_DEPLOYMENT_ACTION//\"}
cd "${POST_DEPLOYMENT_ACTION_DIR%\\*}"
"$POST_DEPLOYMENT_ACTION"
exitWithMessageOnError "post deployment action failed"
fi
echo "Finished successfully."
Step 8:
Assuming you're using Git, (if you're not - why not??), push to Azure
git remote add azure <deploymentLocalGitUrl-from-create-step>
git push azure master
You didn't mention interacting with a DB specifically, but you should this is a good read for that.

Answer 2

Hopefully, this will help someone using Azure tutorial app : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/tutorial-php-mysql-app?pivots=platform-linux
I got the same error 500. Problem is that when you push the code, the deploy.sh runs and it errors on line 111 where error happens because php is not installed.
I commented out the line in .deploy file to run the bash deploy.sh and pushed code again and then it ran fine, by installing php, then the dependencies for laravel etc.

Answer 3

I have managed to make it work (sorry if its too late, started with Laravel this year).
After uploading all files make sure to use Kudu console to access the CMD terminal and copy the .env.example to the root of your app. Once done it is important to set up .env correctly and run:
php artisan key:generate
This will write the key on your env file.
After that it should run.
Do not forget to map the routes to your public folder.