How to deploy Laravel framework website in cPanel ?

Laravel Framework is a PHP framework for web application development. It provides a creative environment for web application development. It has expressive syntax.

Laravel Framework Web Development simplifies the web development process by easing the common tasks  routing, authentication, sessions, and caching.

Advantages of Laravel framework

1) Laravel framework makes the web application development quite easier
2) Flexible features in a short span
3) Improved user experience
4) Increased online traffic for websites
5) Secured

Benefits of Laravel framework

1) Laravel Framework makes implementing authentication very simple. It provides a simple way to organize authorization logic and control access to resources
2) It provides a clean, simple API over the popular SwiftMailer library
3) It supports cache backends like memcached and redis etc. By default Laravel will use file cache driver which stores cached objects in the filesystem
4) It is secure. It helps to secure the web application by protecting it against sql injection, cross site scripting, cross site request forgery
5) Error and exception handling is already configured for any new Laravel-based project
6) All Laravel framework routes are defined in the app/Http/routes.php file, which is automatically loaded by the framework. The most basic Laravel routes simply accept a URI and a Closure, providing a very simple and expressive method of defining routes
7) It is an MVC framework, SEPARATION OF “BUSINESS LOGIC CODE” FROM “PRESENTATION CODE” is default
8) The Laravel queue service provides a unified API across a variety of different queue backends. Queues allow you to defer the processing of a time-consuming task, sending an e-mail which drastically speeds up web requests to your application
9) Laravel command scheduler allows for the fluent and expressive defining of command schedule within Laravel itself, and only a single Cron entry is needed on the server
10) Laravel provides drivers for SMTP, Mailgun, Mandrill, SparkPost, Amazon SES, PHP’s “mail” function, and “sendmail”, allowing an application to quickly get started sending mail through a local or cloud-based service

How to deploy Laravel framework ?

Laravel framework can be deployed manually after developing the project in your local or it can be installed on the server and customize the functions.

Automatic installation

Silicon House cPanel provides you single click installation softwares in which Laravel framework can be installed on your website instantly.

1) Login to cPanel
2) Software Section > Click on Softaculous Apps Installer
3) Search For Laravel
4) Click on Install
5) Once the installation completed, you will be able to customize the functions
6) During the installation database for your project will be created in cPanel

Manual Installation

After you have completed the Laravel project built in your local, you need to upload it to the server by zipping it.

1) Login to cPanel
2) Access to File Manager under Files
3) Use upload option to upload the zip file under public_html
4) Unzip the folder under public_html. Your project files (php) has to be present under public_html folder
5) You can customize .htaccess and index.php as per your requirement
6) Create database via cPanel and update the database settings in your configuration file
7) Database backup of your local work has to restored to the server database. You can click here to learn how to restore database via phpmyadmin

Hope this page is useful in developing and designing web applications using Laravel.