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    Deploy Laravel apps on shared hosting using cPanel

These are the steps to deploy Laravel apps on shared hosting with cpanel.
Table Of Contents


Upload Project Files
Move Public Folder
Change Laravel Path
Update .htaccess
Create Database
Run Migrations
Bypass SSL Verification for Emails

Upload Project Files

Upload your Laravel project files (including composer packages) anywhere outside of your domain's public directory. Let's say if the public directory is public_html then place project files anywhere outside of public_html.
You can upload files either directly via cPanel or by using any FTP client like FileZilla.
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Move Public Folder

After uploading files, move the content of public directory in laravel project to your domain's public directory, in our case public_html.
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Change Laravel Path

Now change the path to your laravel project in index.php file placed in public directory public_html.
Change the path on these two lines in index.php.
require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';
The __DIR__ gives the complete directory path to the file. In our case index.php is placed in public_html and we will get the complete path to public_html.
Now we would need to go one level up and go in project folder and then point the autoload.php and app.php relatively.
After changing path, code will look like this.
require __DIR__.'/../{path_to_project_folder}/vendor/autoload.php';

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../{path_to_project_folder}/bootstrap/app.php';
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Update .htaccess

Now paste the following code in .htaccess file in public_html folder. If the file is not there then you may need to show hidden files.

Note: Backup your old .htaccess file. I don't know what this code means but it just works for cases when public directory is changed. If your project does not work please revert back to old .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_URI} !^/public
    RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ /public/$1 [L]

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
     
</ifModule>

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Create Database

Create database for your project and place the required information in .env file in your project folder.
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Run Migrations

To run any artisan command like php artisan migrate on shared hosting you will need to create a route and hit that route.
To run migration command you can use this code in web.php
Route::get('/migrate', function (){
    \Artisan::call('migrate');
    return 'migrate command called';
});
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Bypass SSL Verification for Emails

If you are sending emails in your project and ssl is not installed on your domain, then you may need to bypass the ssl varification to send emails.
Paste the following code in config/mail.php file to send emails without ssl verification.
'stream' => [
    'ssl' => [
        'allow_self_signed' => true,
        'verify_peer' => false,
        'verify_peer_name' => false,
    ],
],
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