ladill-link/DEPLOY.md

Ladill Link — deployment

Ladill Link is the platform URL shortener. Public short URLs live on ladl.link; the management app runs at link.ladill.com.

Domains

Host	Purpose
ladl.link	Public short-link resolution (/{slug})
link.ladill.com	SSO management UI (create/edit links)

Both vhosts point at the same Laravel app. Set LINK_PUBLIC_DOMAIN=ladl.link in .env.

Pricing

GHS 0.05 per link created (LINK_PRICE_PER_LINK_GHS). Debited from the central UserWallet via the Billing API.

Platform onboarding

From the monolith:

php artisan ladill:onboard-app link --run-dns
php artisan ladill:launcher:sync --propagate --push

Register the Passport OIDC client:

php artisan passport:client \
  --name="Ladill Link" \
  --redirect_uri="https://link.ladill.com/sso/callback"

Set BILLING_API_KEY_LINK and IDENTITY_API_KEY_LINK on both monolith and this app.

Grant read access to platform AI settings:

sudo mysql -e "GRANT SELECT ON ladilldb.platform_settings TO 'ladill_link'@'127.0.0.1'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

Afia reads ai_* keys from platform_settings (same as ladill.com admin). Optional AFIA_API_KEY in .env overrides for local dev.

Legacy URLs

https://ladill.com/q/{code} continues to work for existing QR and storefront codes. New links use https://ladl.link/{code}. Unknown slugs on ladl.link fall back to the legacy resolver.

Database

php artisan migrate --force

Database name: ladill_link.

Country analytics (GeoIP)

Click countries are resolved from CDN headers when present (CF-IPCountry, etc.), then from the visitor IP using a local MaxMind GeoLite2 Country database.

1. Create a free MaxMind account and generate a license key.
2. Set in .env:

MAXMIND_ACCOUNT_ID=
MAXMIND_LICENSE_KEY=

3. Download the database:

php artisan link:geoip-update

The file is stored at storage/app/geoip/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb by default. The command is scheduled weekly via the app scheduler — ensure cron runs php artisan schedule:run for link.ladill.com.