Running Laravel Queue Listner with Supervisor

Hi

Today, we learn how to run queue listener with supervisor.

To run Laravel's queue listener, we use below command:

 php artisan queue:listen --timeout=60 --tries=3 

However this process won't be restarted when the process ends. So We have to use Supervisor to keep this queue listener process active at all times. Below are instructions for Ubuntu

Install Supervisor with following command

 sudo apt-get install supervisor

Ensure it's started with

 sudo service supervisor restart

Supervisor configuration files are typically stored in the /etc/supervisor/conf.d directory. Within this directory, we may create any number of configuration files that instruct supervisor how our processes should be monitored. For example, let's create a laravel-queue.conf file that starts and monitors a queue:listen process:

To create laravel_queue.conf file, run following command

 sudo nano /etc/supervisor/conf.d/laravel_queue.conf

 [program:laravel_queue]
 process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
 command=php /home/username/path_to_laravel/artisan queue:listen --timeout=60 --tries=2
 autostart=true
 autorestart=true 
 user=username 
 stderr_logfile=/var/log/laraqueue.err.log
 stdout_logfile=/var/log/laraqueue.out.log 
 

Now give it execute permissions:

 chmod +x /etc/supervisor/conf.d/laravel_queue.conf

Once the configuration file will be created, we update the Supervisor configuration and start the processes using the following commands:

 sudo supervisorctl reread  
 
 sudo supervisorctl update
 
 sudo supervisorctl start laravel-worker:*  

Below 2 command are necessary, whenever we will change our configuration file.

 sudo supervisorctl reread  
 sudo supervisorctl update  

Thanks