Easiest way to migrate Laravel from local machine to VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 Server (LAMP already configured)?

Question

Laravel

Hello.
I am quite new to Laravel. Working with Laravel in VirtualBox under Ubuntu 16.04. I run Laravel through the server built into it (php artisan serve). Please tell me:
- What is the minimum sufficient set of actions to transfer what I have built to a VPS under Ubuntu 16.04 Server (LAMP is already configured)?
Is it enough to just copy the contents of the public folder to the public_html of the web server, dump the database, and... that's all?)) (let's say the data for connecting to the database is the same and you don't need to edit it).
Thank you.

Answer 1

0. Globally, you install only composer.
1. Move the laravel application folders to the domain folder on the server.
2. In the Web server config, specify the path instead of your_site.ru as your site.ru/public.
3. Do a migration (if you want to start from scratch) or copy from a local database to a new one.
4. You may also need to configure the Web server itself, but that's another story.
PS: Maybe I misunderstood something, but as I remember, I did just that.

Answer 2

Is it enough to just copy the contents of the public folder to the public_html of the webserver

No, this directory only contains index.php and assets.
It is necessary to copy the level above (application root).