Deploy Laravel 8 on Godaddy

In this article, I will show you how we can deploy Laravel 8 on GoDaddy, I will use GoDaddy for that. Believe me, deploying Laravel 8 on GoDaddy is child work, Deployment takes approx 5 to 10 minutes.

To deploy Laravel 8 on Godaddy we will follow the below steps -:

• Creating an account on GoDaddy
• Install Laravel application
• Upload on GoDaddy and unzip folder there
• Install NVM on your Laravel project

STEP -1 : Create an account on GoDaddy

To create your GoDaddy account visit https://www.godaddy.com/ after that you can see the registration page something like below

STEP-2: Download the Laravel Application

Open your command prompt under your htdocs and run the below command

composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-demo-project

STEP-3: Upload project on Godaddy

Log in to your account and click on visit my account

Now go to file manager click on file manager and then go to your public_html folder, put your zipped there under the public_html folder

Now here extract all your files to the public_html, after that you have to go to Laravel public folder and move all those things to the public_html folder on your GoDaddy Shared Hosting.

Now look for index.php file

Open that file and go to line number 34 you have code like below

require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

change to the below one

require DIR.'/vendor/autoload.php';

then go to line number 47 you have code like the below one

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';

change to the below one

$app = require_once DIR.'/bootstrap/app.php';

If you want to use NPM, then you have to install NVM, yes it is NVM not NPM, follow the below step to achieve that thing.

Login to your SSH and type this command :

wget -qO- https://cdn.rawgit.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash

run this command in order to be able to use it :

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"

After that you can install node :

nvm install node

That’s it, I hope you enjoy this article still your laravel project is not working, please comment will reply to you asap.