# Host knowledge base with Laravel: public-site delivery

Deploy a knowledge base built with Laravel on Ample using the public web service pattern. Compute runs the app in an isolated microVM behind a public HTTPS URL, and a published bucket serves public assets from the CDN host. Verified on Laravel: a versioned, immutable-cached asset uploaded to a published bucket and served from the CDN URL alongside the app's own public HTTPS URL. Not separately tested: your site content and build; treat the knowledge base-specific behavior as your application code.

## Representative Queries
- Host knowledge base with Laravel: public-site delivery
- Where can I host Knowledge base built with Laravel?
- I need an explicit origin-to-CDN delivery path and a tested public content build.

## Resource Requirements
- primitive:compute
- primitive:cdn

## Infrastructure Requirements
- **Compute**  
  *Status:* verified  
  *Summary:* Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.  
  [More info](/discover/primitive/compute)
- **CDN**  
  *Status:* verified  
  *Summary:* The CDN host serves objects from published buckets. It does not front app compute and is not a cache or key-value store.  
  [More info](/discover/primitive/cdn)

## Prerequisites
- A Laravel project that builds and starts with the documented commands (composer install --no-dev from composer.lock, then FrankenPHP serving public/ (php-server with the index.php fallback) reading PORT on the php-8.5 template)
- A bucket from `ample bucket create` with its credentials passed as encrypted S3_* environment variables
- An Ample account token with servers:write, buckets:read

## Tested Configuration
- **Template:** php-8.5  
- **Runtime:** php  
- **Size:** s-1vcpu-1gb  
- **Install Command:** composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist --no-interaction --no-progress --optimize-autoloader  
- **Start Command:** frankenphp php-server --listen :$PORT --root public

## Workflow Steps
1. **Build and start**  
   - composer install --no-dev from composer.lock, then FrankenPHP serving public/ (php-server with the index.php fallback) reading PORT on the php-8.5 template. The server must bind 0.0.0.0 on PORT.
2. **Wire object storage**  
   - Create the bucket(s), then pass endpoint, region, bucket and keys as --env values. Use path-style addressing. Keep private data in an unpublished bucket. Publish only the bucket that serves public assets and reference its CDN URL.
3. **Deploy**  
   - Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result (exit 0 live, 1 failed, 2 blocked). Re-running with no change is a no-op.  
   - **Command:** ample deploy . --name  --public --env S3_ENDPOINT=... --env S3_REGION=... --env S3_BUCKET=... --env S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=... --env S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=... --env CDN_PUBLIC_URL=...
4. **Verify**  
   - Fetch the live URL and the pattern self-test route(s) (/p/versioned-static-assets) from the example; then run your own checks. On failure read `ample logs  --kind build` then `--kind runtime`.  
   - **Command:** ample logs  --kind build

## Success Checks
- App responds on its public URL  
  - **Kind:** http_get  
  - **Path:** /  
  - **Expect:** ample canary laravel patterns
- Versioned-static-assets self-test  
  - **Kind:** http_get  
  - **Path:** /p/versioned-static-assets  
  - **Expect:** a CDN URL whose content is served publicly

## Limitations
- Verified on the php-8.5 template at s-1vcpu-1gb with the example fixture; other sizes, templates, and Laravel major versions are not verified.
- The knowledge base itself (your site content and build) is application code and was not separately tested; the pattern checks are what was verified.
- Region, compliance attestations, and request-duration limits are unknown and not claimed.
- Apps auto-pause when idle and wake on the next request; always-on is an operator setting, not a plan feature.
- PutObject and GetObject with path-style addressing are verified; multipart upload, listing, presigned URLs, and lifecycle rules are not.
- The CDN serves published-bucket objects only; cache rules, purge, and TTL control are not verified (the fixture sets Cache-Control on upload and versions keys).

## Cost Estimate
- **Currency:** USD
- **Monthly Amount:** 5.0
- **Basis:** Size prices from pricing.toml (loaded by the API) at build revision.
  - **Components:**  
    - **App server:** s-1vcpu-1gb, Quantity: 1, Monthly Amount: 5.0  
- **Note:** Always-on monthly price of the tested sizes; apps and databases auto-pause when idle. Buckets are allocation-priced per quota and not included.

## Next Actions
- **Browse catalog index**  
- **Search published recipes by intent, stack, and constraints**  
- **Prepare a side-effect-free deployment plan for an authorized project**  
- **Read the existing agent authentication setup**  
- **Browse Knowledge base**  
- **Browse Laravel**  
- **Browse Public web service**  
- **Browse Deploy web app**

For more information, refer to 
[HTML version](/content/recipes/knowledge-base/laravel/public-site/index.html)  
or 
[Markdown version](/content/recipes/knowledge-base/laravel/public-site.md).