You have to run this command php artisan queue:work to execute Laravel Queues, however, in a production environment you will need to handle this automatically. You can run Laravel Queues automatically and efficiently using Supervisor on your Linux machine.
Install Supervisor
Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems. Supervisor is used with Laravel to run Queue tasks automatically.
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We used a cPanel server with CentOS 7.9 when we tested the commands in this article.
Configure Supervisor
1. Open Supervisor configuration file using your preferred editor:
nano /etc/supervisord.conf
2. Edit the following section and add it to the supervisor configuration file.
Assuming that your linux user is myxuser and Laravel artisan file is located in /home/myxuser/laravelproject/artisan
[program:laravel-worker] command=/usr/local/bin/php /home/myxuser/laravelproject/artisan queue:work --sleep=3 --tries=3 ; << CHANGE THIS - The php artisan Command process_name=%(program_name)s numprocs=1 autostart=true autorestart=true startsecs=10 startretries=3 user=myxuser ; << CHANGE THIS - Linux User redirect_stderr=true stdout_logfile=/home/myxuser/laravelproject/laravel-worker.log ; << CHANGE THIS - Log file path. The file must be created already as Supervisor will not attempt to create it
3. Save and close the configuration file.
4. Restart Supervisor
systemctl restart supervisord
5. Check Supervisor status to see if the command is running
systemctl status supervisord
You should find the command in the Status output
supervisord.service - Process Monitoring and Control Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/supervisord.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2022-01-12 10:56:15 EST; 14s ago
Process: 14042 ExecStart=/usr/bin/supervisord -c /etc/supervisord.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 14045 (supervisord)
CGroup: /system.slice/supervisord.service
├─14045 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/supervisord -c /etc/supervisord.conf
└─14046 /opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/usr/bin/php /home/myxuser/laravelproject/artisan queue:work --sleep=3 --tries=3
