Week 5: Laravel Security Best Practices + Deployment
Secure your app like a pro and take it live — from CSRF protection to deploying on a real VPS with a custom domain.
Laravel Security Essentials
Laravel provides powerful security features out of the box. This week you'll learn how to:
- ✅ Validate user input and sanitize data
- ✅ Protect routes with middleware
- ✅ Use CSRF tokens properly
- ✅ Secure authentication with guards
- ✅ Implement rate limiting to prevent brute-force attacks
- ✅ Escape output to prevent XSS
- ✅ Use .env and config files securely
Deploy Your Laravel App to Production
Learn how to deploy your Laravel project to a VPS like DigitalOcean or Linode. Configure Nginx, PHP, MySQL, and deploy using Git or SFTP.
- Setting up a Ubuntu VPS (with SSH)
- Installing Nginx, PHP, Composer & Laravel
- Uploading your project from local to VPS
- Setting file permissions correctly
- Connecting your MySQL database
- Pointing a custom domain to your server
- Configuring SSL with Let's Encrypt
Secure & Launch the Blog App
Apply everything you've learned to your Laravel blog project. Add middleware protections, validation rules, and then deploy it live so the world can access it from a real domain.
Why This Matters
Many developers can build apps — few can secure and deploy them. These are essential skills that make you production-ready and set you apart as a serious Laravel developer.
Outcomes
- ✅ Build secure Laravel applications
- ✅ Prevent common web attacks
- ✅ Deploy Laravel projects to the web
- ✅ Serve your app from a real domain with HTTPS