From Zero to Staging: A Real-World Laravel + Node.js Docker Deployment (With Every Bug We Hit) A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up a clean staging server from scratch — SSH hardening, Docker orchestration, Let's Encrypt SSL, database seeding, and debugging a login that refused to work for six different reasons. The Setup We had a production server ( api.dineshstack.ae ) running a Laravel 12 + Node.js microservices stack inside Docker. We needed a staging environment that was an exact...