AWS Elasticbeansstalk PHP Symfony Example

This repository should help others how to deploy your Symfony application to AWS Elasticbeansstalk PHP instances.

Requires

• Elasticbeanstalk instance
• DB Instance
• Configured ENV Variables (configured via AWS UI)
  • APP_ENV
  • DATABASE_URL
  • MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN (if messenger is used)
  • MAILER_DSN (if mailer is used)
• Gitlab ENV Variables (if gitlab is used for deployment, configured via Gitlab UI)
  • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
  • AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Features

• composer optimization (.ebextensions/composer.config)
• cronjob configuration (.ebextensions/cron-linux.config)
• doctrine migration configuration (.ebextensions/migration.config)
• php configuration (.ebextensions/php.config)
  • redis extension included
• publicdir configuration (.ebextensions/publicdir.config)
• supervisor configuration (.ebextensions/supervisor.config)
• nginx vhost (.platform/nginx/conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/php.conf)
• gitlab deployment (.gitlab-ci.yml / .gitlab/create_aws_config.sh)

Feedback welcome

You did struggle with something let me know. So we can here add more faqs to help others avoiding same problems.

FAQ

Deploy locally

You can deploy when you have eb installed (MacOS brew install awsebcli) via:

eb init "Your Application Name" --platform "PHP 8.0 running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2" --region=eu-central-1 --profile=eb-cli
eb deploy

Debug Deploy errors

You can use following command to debug deploy errors:

eb logs

The full logs you can download via the AWS Website. In my case following logs did help

• eb-engine.log
• cfn-init.log
• cfn-init-cmd.log (this log file helped me find illegal syntax in my command scripts)

Forcing HTTPS

In the .platform/nginx/conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/nginx.conf it is possible to force https. Via:

    fastcgi_param HTTPS on;

I could not get it work via x-forwarded-* headers as the were not send to my instance.

Cronjob only on one Instance

If your applicaton is running with multiple instances it is maybe important that your cronjobs only run on one instance for this have a look at the following issue and example:

#1.

Permission denied install_supervisor

If you have problem to deploy with supervisor and have following in your cfn-init-cmd.log:

/bin/sh: .ebextensions/supervisor/setup.sh: Permission denied

It could be an error with the setup.sh not being executable so make it executable via:

chmod +x .ebextensions/supervisor/setup.sh: