Deploying Nova 4 via Envoyer

[Synchro]

I'm having difficulty deploying Nova via Laravel Envoyer, on a host managed with Forge. To authenticate the Nova installation there are two mechanisms: one to allow composer to download the package, and a second to enable the package license in Laravel. The first is meant to be managed via an auth.json file, which provides composer with the necessary credentials. This file (like anything else containing keys or credentials) should not be stored in git, so needs to be stored somewhere else that is accessible during an Envoyer deployment. If it's added directly to the current folder on an Envoyer managed host, it won't work, because the next deploy will create a new folder which doesn't contain it.

The second location for Nova credentials is in a .env file, however, although this can contain the same credentials as composer needs, it is not read by composer and so the credentials are not available to it.

Annoyingly, this means that while my app runs perfectly on localhost, and it's easy to deploy in CI, getting it to work on my staging and production systems seems unnecessarily difficult. Should I get Envoyer to read my .env file and authorise composer manually? This also seems difficult because Envoyer makes a point of running composer tasks for you, and its hook script is not editable; a hook script added beforehand won't help because it's run in a separate shell and does not share its environment.

How is this supposed to be done?

[Synchro]

I've got this working via a manual installation and a deploy hook script. I created the auth.json file in the project root (/home/forge/<site-name>), then added a script that does this (run as the forge user):

cp {{project}}/auth.json {{release}}/auth.json

and placed that before the stock "Install Composer Dependencies" step.

[ziming]

Just put it in ur composer global auth.json if the server simply just host this 1 site

[crynobone]

I not 100% familiar with Envoyer but I do believe you can store auth.json in the project directory and then use

cd {{ project }}
composer install -d {{ release }}

Reference: https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#global-options

[davidhemphill]

In Envoyer, you can create a new hook to authenticate Nova:

Something similar to this: