╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ KHELOPAKISTAN - QUICK DEPLOYMENT GUIDE ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ 📦 FILES YOU NEED TO UPLOAD TO CPANEL: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Entire project folder (ZIP it first for easier upload) 2. database_backup_for_cpanel.sql (for phpMyAdmin import) ⚡ FASTEST 5-STEP DEPLOYMENT: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 1: CREATE DATABASE ──────────────────────── cPanel → MySQL Databases → Create Database: khelopak_db Create User: khelopak_user (with strong password) Add user to database (ALL PRIVILEGES) STEP 2: IMPORT DATABASE ─────────────────────── cPanel → phpMyAdmin → Select khelopak_db → Import → Choose File: database_backup_for_cpanel.sql → Click Go STEP 3: UPLOAD PROJECT ────────────────────── cPanel → File Manager → public_html/ → Upload project ZIP → Extract → Move files to root STEP 4: CONFIGURE .ENV ────────────────────── Edit .env file: APP_ENV=production APP_DEBUG=false APP_URL="https://yourdomain.com" DB_DATABASE="username_khelopak_db" DB_USERNAME="username_khelopak_user" DB_PASSWORD="your_password" FORCE_HTTPS="On" STEP 5: SET PERMISSIONS ─────────────────────── Right-click → Change Permissions: storage/ → 755 ✓ Recurse bootstrap/cache/ → 755 ✓ Recurse public/uploads/ → 755 ✓ Recurse ✅ DONE! Visit: https://yourdomain.com 📱 ADMIN ACCESS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ URL: https://yourdomain.com/admin Check database `users` table for credentials 🔒 IMPORTANT SECURITY: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✓ APP_DEBUG=false in production ✓ Strong database password ✓ Enable SSL (Let's Encrypt in cPanel) ✓ FORCE_HTTPS="On" after SSL 🛠️ TROUBLESHOOTING: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 500 Error? → Check storage/ permissions (755) DB Error? → Verify .env credentials Images missing? → Check public/uploads/ permissions White page? → Set APP_DEBUG=true temporarily, check logs 📚 FULL GUIDE: Read CPANEL_DEPLOYMENT_STEPS.txt