The master folder

Create a master folder which will hold

• the .env file to be copied into each deployment

• the storage folder so that it survives deployments

If your website name is example.org then navigate to the ~/www/example.org folder. Then execute the following;

mkdir master && cd master && \
mkdir storage && \
mkdir storage/app && \
mkdir storage/app/public && \
mkdir storage/framework && \
mkdir storage/framework/cache && \
mkdir storage/framework/cache/data && \
mkdir storage/framework/sessions && \
mkdir storage/framework/views && \
mkdir storage/logs && \
cd ..

This will create the required empty folder structure for your laravel project's storage

Files that are stored in this storage folder will persist between deployments and give zero downtime.

Note that this folder structure is within the folder named after your site.