How do we get Wave installed on Ubuntu

[Ticaga-Mike]

Thank you guys for doing Wave, however I don't really want to use Herd and SQLite, I want to use it on my Ubuntu VPS & MySQL.
I've installed Laravel 12, migrated the basic tables.
Grabbed the zip from Github, wget it to the server, extracted the zip, moved the files over.

Installed composer to overwrite the vendor with the wave vendor files.
Edited the .env to use my MySQL database.
Then I migrated the database and seeded the database.

Run the build and it moans about TailwindCSS. I'm assuming Laravel and Wave do something different for Tailwind. but I can't for the life of me, get Wave working. Laravel 12 works fine out of the box.

[bobbyiliev]

Hey!

Yep, you can absolutely run Wave on a VPS with MySQL. Wave is just a Laravel app. Herd + SQLite is just great for local development, but for production, you should use Postgres or MySQL.

For the Tailwind CSS issue that you mentioned, you just need to run npm install && npm run build and that should be enough to fix the Tailwind errors. Just follow the steps here: https://devdojo.com/wave/docs/guides/deploy-on-digitalocean and https://devdojo.com/wave/docs/local-dev

If you still get an error, just share it here as 'moans about TailwindCSS' is a bit vague.

[Ticaga-Mike]

Thank you so I removed all the files and I didn't use Laravel builder before doing the wave clone and it worked thank you.

[bobbyiliev]

Awesome! No worries, good to hear that you got it all working!