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Keep SQLite Alive During Laravel Forge Zero-Downtime Deployments

01May 12, 2026 · 13 min readDeployment

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Keep SQLite Alive During Laravel Forge Zero-Downtime

A practical deployment guide for running SQLite on Laravel Forge without losing data when zero-downtime releases switch the current symlink.

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