make:horizon:supervisor

Generate a Supervisor configuration file for Laravel Horizon

Signature: modularous:make:horizon:supervisor

Alias: modularous:create:horizon:supervisor

Category: Make

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Description

Interactive wizard that creates a Supervisor .conf file for running Laravel Horizon as a daemon. Automatically detects the OS (macOS or Linux), locates a writable Supervisor config directory, and checks for existing processes with the same app name before writing. Prints the supervisorctl commands needed to activate the new config.

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Usage

modularous:make:horizon:supervisor

No arguments or options — fully interactive.

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Interactive prompts

Prompt	Default	Description
Config name	b2press-app	Used as the supervisor program name prefix
PHP binary	php	Path to the PHP executable
App path	base_path()	Absolute path to your Laravel application
Command	artisan horizon	Artisan command to run (prepended with app path)
User	root	OS user to run the process as
Log file name	horizon	Base name for the log file

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After running

The command prints the three activation commands:

sudo supervisorctl reread
sudo supervisorctl update
sudo supervisorctl start {programName}

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Supervisor config directories checked

macOS (Homebrew):

• /usr/local/etc/supervisor/conf.d
• /usr/local/etc/supervisor.d
• /opt/homebrew/etc/supervisor.d

Linux:

• /etc/supervisor/conf.d
• /etc/supervisord.d
• /etc/supervisord/conf.d

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Notes

• The command will suggest install instructions if Supervisor is not found (brew install supervisor or apt-get install supervisor).
• Not supported on Windows.
• The generated program name is unique ({appName}-{uniqid()}-horizon) to avoid conflicts.

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See also

• System Reference