I am trying to deploy a laravel app to a ubuntu server, i have installed php, composer, mysql, and apache. I upload the files to /var/www/html and set up the database, but the pages are not loading at all. After like 3 minutes or so the html pops up without any css and its still loading. I am using a digitalocean droplet with 1 gig of ram and 25 gb ssd. When I request a page I am able to see the html when I use inspect element tool but it will not render. I am using the /public/ directory by the way as I have not set up the htaccess yet
Any advice would be appreciated.
I have tried to clear caches, set up file permissions, and searched the internet but I can not find an answer