Deploy and Host Laravel in Production (Laravel, MySQL, Redis, Nightwatch) on Railway

A production-ready Laravel 12 starter template pre-configured with MySQL, Redis, and Nightwatch monitoring. Clone, set your environment variables, and deploy. No infrastructure configuration required.

About Hosting Laravel in Production (Laravel, MySQL, Redis, Nightwatch)

Hosting Laravel in production requires more than just running php artisan serve. This template bundles a multi-stage Dockerfile that compiles your app with Composer, serves it via Nginx and PHP-FPM, and manages all processes through Supervisor, including a Redis-backed queue worker running alongside your web server. MySQL handles persistent data storage, Redis powers your cache, sessions, and queues for performance and scalability, and Nightwatch provides real-time application monitoring so you can catch errors and performance issues before your users do.

Common Use Cases

Launching a Laravel API or full-stack web application with production-grade infrastructure from day one
Teams that want Redis-backed queues and caching without maintaining separate worker infrastructure
Applications that require real-time error tracking and performance monitoring via Nightwatch

Dependencies for Laravel in Production (Laravel, MySQL, Redis, Nightwatch) Hosting

Laravel 12, PHP web application framework
MySQL, relational database for persistent storage
Redis, in-memory store for cache, sessions, and queues
Nightwatch, Laravel-native application monitoring
Predis, PHP Redis client
Supervisor, process manager running Nginx, PHP-FPM, and the queue worker in a single container

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

A single container runs three processes via Supervisor:

```ini [program:nginx] command=nginx -g "daemon off;"

[program:php-fpm] command=php-fpm -F

[program:queue-worker] command=php /app/artisan queue:work redis --sleep=3 --tries=3 --max-time=3600 ```

Health check available at GET /health, which returns the live status of both MySQL and Redis:

json { "status": "up", "services": { "database": { "status": "up" }, "redis": { "status": "up" } } }

Why Deploy Laravel in Production (Laravel, MySQL, Redis, Nightwatch) on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Laravel in Production (Laravel, MySQL, Redis, Nightwatch) on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.