Update: See https://github.com/Nathanjms/laravel-docker-template for what I consider the easiest way to deploy laravel projects on Coolify, any questons please leave an issue over there!
The magic comes from the nixpacks.toml file, which was based on the one provided by @marcfowler at coollabsio/coolify#2156.
Note: If you do not need horizon, then you may be able to further simplify this by using nixpacks.no-horizon.toml (renaming to nixpacks.toml) instead.
I've also added opcache, but to be honest am unsure if it's working (or needed here).
Include the nixpacks.toml (or nixpacks.no-horizon.toml renamed to nixpacks.toml) in your root directory, then one of the following:
The nixpacks has a [postbuild] step to handle the cache:clear and the artisan:migrate commands, but to get supervisor to run (so we get horizon), you can either override the default [start]'s cmd with the one provided by Nixpacks and add the command to start supervisor:
[start]
cmd = 'node /assets/scripts/prestart.mjs /assets/nginx.template.conf /nginx.conf && (supervisord -c /etc/supervisord.conf & php-fpm -y /assets/php-fpm.conf & nginx -c /nginx.conf)'
However, if Nixpacks change this command in the future (unsure how likely this is), this will not update.
Instead, we can do the following to run supervisor post-build:
Add the following to the post-deployment commands section of the project on Coolify dashboard:
supervisord -c /etc/supervisord.conf
