Deploying a Laravel app to Pagoda Box
Pagoda Box is a popular cloud hosting service that makes creating a web app very easy. With pre-made boxes for Laravel, we can create our own site in the cloud.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we need to have a free account with Pagoda Box, which is available at https://dashboard.pagodabox.com/account/register. After signing up, we'll also need to have an SSH key added to our account. More information about the SSH keys can be found at http://help.pagodabox.com/customer/portal/articles/202068.
How to do it...
To complete this recipe, follow the steps given:
After logging in to Pagodabox, click on the New Application tab as shown in the following screenshot:
Make sure Quickstart is selected, then scroll down to find the laravel-4 quickstart. The click on the Free button as shown in the following screenshot:
On the next page, click on the Launch button as shown in the following screenshot:
Wait for a few minutes while everything gets installed.
Once it's finished...
