Nginx / VPS

Copy the full ProTask tree onto the server. The Laravel front controller lives in public/.

Document root

Point the Nginx (or Apache) document root at the public directory inside the project, not at the project root. Example:

root /var/www/protask/public;

If you put files in /var/www/protask, visitors should hit /var/www/protask/public/index.php.

Keep storage and bootstrap/cache writable by the PHP user, same as Installation.

Typical Nginx snippet

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name your-domain.com;
    root /var/www/protask/public;

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

    index index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
        deny all;
    }
}

Adjust the PHP-FPM socket to match the installed PHP version.

HTTPS and queues

After TLS is on, set APP_URL in .env to the https:// URL. Then configure SMTP and cron.