Hosting a Laravel 11 project on cPanel shared hosting involves several steps since Laravel is built to work with a virtual host setup (like localhost with public/ as root), but cPanel typically uses public_html/ as the root directory. Here’s a full guide to help you: ✅ Prerequisites Laravel 11 project ready on your local machine. cPanel access (via your hosting provider). PHP version on server must be PHP 8.2+ . Composer installed on server (optional but helpful). MySQL database (if needed) created in cPanel. 📁 Step-by-Step Hosting Guide 1. Structure Your Project for cPanel By default, Laravel uses public/ as the web root. But cPanel uses public_html/ . So you need to move the contents of Laravel's public/ folder into public_html/ , and update paths accordingly. Let’s say your project folder is called laravel11app . Option A: Simple Adjustment (Recommended for shared hosting) Compress your entire Laravel project , excluding the vendor folder (optiona...
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