# Deploying Soketi to Laravel Forge

DevFeed: [Deploying Soketi to Laravel Forge](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/deploying-soketi-to-laravel-forge-3617.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/deploying-soketi-to-laravel-forge>)

Author: James Brooks

Published: 2022-01-05T14:30:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Laravel Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/laravel-blog.md>)

Topics: [WebSocket](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/websocket.md>), [Laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/laravel.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [npm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/npm.md>), [TypeScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/typescript.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Yarn](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/yarn.md>), [client](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/client.md>), [nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nginx.md>), [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>)

Tags: [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [drivers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/drivers.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/laravel.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nginx.md>), [node](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/node.md>), [npm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/npm.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [ssl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssl.md>), [terminal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/terminal.md>), [typescript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/typescript.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how to deploy the open-source Soketi WebSocket server to a server managed by Laravel Forge. It covers opening a server port, installing Soketi with npm or Yarn, configuring a Forge daemon, verifying the service, and updating a Laravel application to connect to Soketi through Laravel Echo. It also mentions optional drivers, SSL support, debugging, and environment-variable configuration.

## Source excerpt

Soketi is a simple, fast and resilient open-source WebSockets server written in Typescript. It's fully compatible with the Pusher v7 protocol which makes it a great replacement to Pusher when using Laravel Echo.