Setup a DigitalOcean LAMP 16.04 image ready for Laravel. Creates a swap file, generates ssh key, installs required packages and composer.

ubuntu-lamp-laravel-setup.sh

# Run with the following:
# curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/samdoidge/55e4d3332448cc7f2f9a2cbe1124c247/raw/7c434cabc84a550dbdb95f2fa4c6ce129e70475a/ubuntu-lamp-laravel-setup.sh | bash -s 1g
# Last argument is swapfile size. 1g = 1 gigabyte.

set -e
sudo fallocate -l $1 /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
echo "Swap file of size $1 created."

# Create ssh key
ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa

# Install required packages for Laravel app
sudo apt-get -y install php-mbstring php7.0-mbstring php-gettext libapache2-mod-php7.0
sudo apt-get -y install php-curl
sudo systemctl restart apache2

# Install Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer