Additional Configuration

Once the panel is installed and reachable through Nginx, you should finish the production setup.

Recommended .env values

The default environment file is intentionally conservative. For production, the most common setup is:

APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_URL=https://panel.example.com

DB_CONNECTION=pgsql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=5432
DB_DATABASE=skyport
DB_USERNAME=skyport
DB_PASSWORD=change-me

CACHE_STORE=redis
SESSION_DRIVER=redis
QUEUE_CONNECTION=redis

REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PORT=6379
REDIS_PASSWORD=null

LOG_CHANNEL=stack
LOG_LEVEL=info

OCTANE_SERVER=swoole

Octane service

Create /etc/systemd/system/skyport-panel.service:

[Unit]
Description=Skyport Panel (Laravel Octane)
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=www-data
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/skyport
ExecStart=/usr/bin/php artisan octane:start --server=swoole --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8000 --workers=auto --task-workers=auto --max-requests=500
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
Environment=APP_ENV=production

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Queue worker service

Create /etc/systemd/system/skyport-queue.service:

[Unit]
Description=Skyport Queue Worker
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=www-data
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/skyport
ExecStart=/usr/bin/php artisan queue:work --tries=1 --timeout=0
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
Environment=APP_ENV=production

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable and start services

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now skyport-panel.service skyport-queue.service

File ownership

A safe baseline is to make the web user own the app directory:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/skyport

Useful maintenance commands

php artisan optimize:clear
php artisan config:cache
php artisan route:cache
php artisan view:cache

Run those after major environment changes or deployments.

Logging

When debugging production issues, start with:

journalctl -u skyport-panel -u skyport-queue -f

And Laravel’s application log:

tail -f /var/www/skyport/storage/logs/laravel.log

Redis recommendations

If you use Redis for cache, sessions, and queues, keep it local or private to your trusted network. Do not expose Redis directly to the internet.

Database recommendations

Use PostgreSQL for production unless you have a strong reason not to. SQLite is fine for local development, but PostgreSQL will be a much better default for real deployments.