## Host storefront with Laravel: relational catalog data

Deploy a storefront built with Laravel on Ample using the transactional workflows pattern. Compute runs the app in an isolated microVM behind a public HTTPS URL, a managed PostgreSQL 16 database is auto-provisioned and injected as DATABASE_URL. Verified on Laravel: an optimistic version check and an event row written in the same transaction, a stale update rejected, and a history query over the application-owned events (history=2 conflict=rejected). Not separately tested: your domain records, validation rules and concurrency policy; treat the storefront-specific behavior as your application code.

### Representative Queries
- Host storefront with Laravel: relational catalog data
- Where can I host Storefront built with Laravel?
- I need catalog tables, transactional update logic and application-level access boundaries.

### Resource Requirements
- **Compute**
- **Postgres**

### Infrastructure Requirements
1. **Compute**: Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.
2. **Postgres**: Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.

### Framework
- Laravel

### Workload
- Storefront

### Release Status
- Published

### Support Status
- Verified

### Execution Status
- Ready

### 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 PostgreSQL driver reading DATABASE_URL at runtime (auto-provisioned when omitted, or supplied with --env).
- An Ample account token with servers:write, databases:read.

### Tested Configuration
- **Template**: php-8.5
- **Runtime**: php
- **Size**: s-1vcpu-1gb
- **Install**: composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist --no-interaction --no-progress --optimize-autoloader
- **Start**: 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. **Implement the pattern on PostgreSQL**: Copy the optimistic version check and event row checks into your schema; keep migrations idempotent and run them with --release-command.
3. **Deploy**: Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result (exit 0 live, 1 failed, 2 blocked).
4. **Verify**: Fetch the live URL and the pattern self-test route(s) (/p/transactional-workflows) from the example; check accordingly.

### Examples
- **Laravel pattern fixture**: Multi-pattern Laravel app whose transactional workflows module was checked live; the module is under tests/deploy-canaries/_pattern-modules.

### Success Checks
1. **App responds on its public URL**: await response on `/`, expected `ample canary laravel patterns`.
2. **Transactional-workflows self-test**: check `/p/transactional-workflows`, expected `tx=ok history=2 conflict=rejected`.

### Limitations
- Verified only on the php-8.5 template at s-1vcpu-1gb; other configurations are not verified.
- The storefront specifics (domain records, validation, concurrency policy) were not tested outside this setup.

### Cost Estimate
- **Currency**: USD
- **Monthly Amount**: $10.00
- **Components**:
  - App server: s-1vcpu-1gb - $5.00
  - Managed PostgreSQL database: s-1vcpu-1gb - $5.00
- **Note**: Always-on monthly price; apps and databases auto-pause when idle.

### Last Verified At
- 2026-09-20T20:36:21Z

### Evidence Summary
1. **Canary run**: Laravel pattern fixture deployed on Ample.
2. **Canary run**: Same Laravel app deployed with a --release-command migration; checks were passed.

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