I can’t find any comprehensive guide on deploying Phoenix on a VPS with PostgreSQL, Nginx, Ubuntu 18.04. Anybody knows?

[image] lpil: You can mount the router rather than the endpoint :slight_smile: You may need to move some plugs around depending on your setup but it’s less work than deploying both, and you can write a unit test for the mounted routes to ensure its all working as intended I think my problem …

Looks good to me. :slight_smile:

I there an actual tutorial on how to deploy Phoenix using only cowboy?

What do you mean using only cowboy? It uses only cowboy by default, so unless you changed it?

I think @Nvim meant how to deploy a phoenix application without a reverse proxy like nginx in front of it. Hence the “only cowboy”. Op: I think you should not forgoe setting up a reverse proxy in front of you application. From an ops perspective it is probably much easier to integrate nginx with an…

yes but how do you set up in a VPS? For instance run mix.phx.server automatically? A complete step by step guide would be helpful.

Usually you don’t, you use releases in a docker instead or bare, and their lifecycle be managed by docker or systemd respectively. Distillery has documentation for both variants. Home - Distillery Documentation

I wrote a guide a while back ago as well, which very much uses the stack you desire: Using LetsEncrypt with Phoenix (behind Nginx). How to make this more optimal?

I deploy docker’s for my personal projects. At work I deploy into a systemd management full VM, so systemd manages all the launching and so forth. I’ve documented how in PidFile - create and manage a PID file from the BEAM process if curious, but I recommend docker when possible.

[image] OvermindDL1: I deploy docker’s for my personal projects. [image] OvermindDL1: but I recommend docker when possible. Do you have any guide how you are doing your releases with Docker? I am building an Elixir Docker Stack for development, but I would like to also include a relea…

Is there a Phoenix VPS Deployment Guide?

Questions & Help Questions

Exadra37 May 29, 2019, 2:56pm 32

I mean to deploy into the server, not on the server