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5/10/2026
Deploy a Website to cPanel Shared Hosting

Deploy a Website to cPanel Shared Hosting

Short summary

Step-by-step guide to deploying a Laravel application to cPanel shared hosting, covering database setup, file organization, environment configuration, and storage symlinks. Includes FTP and Git alternatives.

  • Export database and create separate ZIP archives for Laravel project and public folder
  • Configure cPanel database, upload files, set PHP version, and update index.php paths
  • Configure .env with database credentials and set up storage symlinks

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