Server is Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)

Execute the following commands on it:

# enable php 7 repos to install php 7.2
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
yum install yum-utils
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php72 
# install php 7.2 and needed modules and apache and mysql database and git
yum install  -y  php php-mcrypt php-cli php-gd php-curl php-mysql php-ldap php-zip php-fileinfo php-mbstring php-dom php-mysql mariadb mariadb-server httpd git
# check php version 
php -v
# enable http and mysql
systemctl enable httpd && systemctl enable mariadb 
# start http and mysql
systemctl start mariadb && systemctl start httpd
# add username to git to be able to pull from repo
git config --global user.email {email}
# generate ssh key to add to git to enable pulling without password 
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "samasat@yahoo.com"
# show public key and paste it into git (look up add ssh key to git)
cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub 
# move to html direcotyr to copy application to that 
cd /var/www/html/
# copy project
git clone git@github.com:GamalTawaf/Zoom.io.git
# rename project folder for eaiser refernces 
mv Zoom.io app
# install composer
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '544e09ee996cdf60ece3804abc52599c22b1f40f4323403c44d44fdfdd586475ca9813a858088ffbc1f233e9b180f061') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/bin  --filename=composer
composer
# run composer isntall to install info
composer install
# generate key for enviroment 
php artisan key:generate
# add vhost info to tell apache which location to serve the application from
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/{websitename}.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName {websitename} 

    ServerAdmin {website_admin_email}
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/app/public 

    <Directory /var/www/html/app>
      Require all granted
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

# Create zoomdb run following commands
mysql 
create database zoomdb;
exit
# run migrations with seeding
php artisan migrate --seed

if you keep getting log permission error

look at this answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44871684/run-laravel-application-on-red-hat

we are using https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/centosrhel7-apache

sudo certbot --apache