Setting Up Queue Worker in Laravel to a server eg Digital Ocean
To have queue worker on our server we need a service which can allow to run queue:work all the time. So we need a supervisor
Supervisor is a process monitor for the Linux Operating System, and it will automatically restart queue:work process if it fails
Installation
To install Supervisor on Ubuntu, you may use the following command:
sudo apt-get install supervisor
After installing Supervisor on our server we need to go to conf.d directory
cd /etc/supervisor/conf.d
Create a new configuration file
create a new file eg queue-worker.conf to handle all our instructions
#create new file via vim/nano
sudo nano /etc/supervisor/conf.d/queue-worker.conf
#setup the command
[program:queue-worker]
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
command=php /var/www/html/artisan queue:work
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=root
numprocs=8
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/var/www/html/worker.log
the command specifies where your project is located in your server
Starting the supervisor service
Everything is setup now, but we have not told our supervisor to read this new file. We have to start the reading process.
sudo supervisorctl reread
the supervisor now knows there is a new file but we have to restart the service also
sudo supervisorctl update
then the we need to instruct the supervisor to restart
sudo supervisorctl reload
or
sudo service supervisor restart
Thats It!, you can read more about creating jobs and queues on laravel docs
code is here
