So you’re a Laravel developer and of course you are using Forge to manage your servers. You enjoy how simple Forge makes it to deploy your applications but you may notice a few seconds of downtime when your app is updating packages etc. To solve this you could use Envoyer, from Taylor Otwell or hack together you own solution.

After some searching I came across a gist from rap2hpoutre. It works by making a copy of your existing application and updating the copy of your app(git, composer, migrations, etc). Then it moves your current application to a new backup folder and replaces your live site with the newly updated files. This enables you to revert back if something goes wrong. Make sure you rename the folders so they are unique per project if you are hosting multiple apps on the same server.

```bash # stop script on error signal set -e

remove old deployment folders

if [ -d “/home/forge/weather-deploy” ]; then rm -R /home/forge/weather-deploy fi if [ -d “/home/forge/weather-backup” ]; then rm -R /home/forge/weather-backup fi

cp -R /home/forge/weather.timleland.com /home/forge/weather-deploy

Update

cd /home/forge/weather-deploy git pull origin master composer dump-autoload composer install —no-dev —no-interaction —prefer-dist —optimize-autoloader php artisan cache:clear php artisan route:cache php artisan view:clear php artisan migrate —force

Switch (downtime for microseconds)

mv /home/forge/weather.timleland.com /home/forge/weather-backup mv /home/forge/weather-deploy /home/forge/weather.timleland.com

<p>After updating the script for my projects and saving it as my deploy script on Forge,&nbsp;I was able to deploy my <a href="https://weather.timleland.com/" target="_blank">Weather</a>&nbsp;app with virtually zero downtime. Its great to know I can deploy at anytime without upsetting users.</p>
<p>Let me know your thoughts and how this could be improved in the comments below.</p>