How to Install Laravel on cPanel

Can Laravel run on shared cPanel — the honest answer

The honest answer: yes, Laravel runs on cPanel shared hosting, with two adjustments and one ceiling. Unlike WordPress — where Softaculous installs everything in a click — Laravel wants Composer at the shell and a document-root correction, because the framework's public/ folder must become the web root for anything to render. The ceiling: shared hosting's entry-process limits suit business apps, dashboards and CRUD tools, not queue-heavy or high-concurrency workloads.

1. Prerequisites: PHP 8.x via MultiPHP Manager, Composer available in Terminal (most modern cPanel builds ship it).
2. Create the project: composer create-project laravel/laravel in your home directory.
3. Fix the document root — point the domain (or a symlink) at public/ — where 90 percent of cPanel Laravel failures live.
4. Configure .env: database credentials, APP_KEY, APP_URL.
5. Set storage/ permissions to 755 and run php artisan migrate.

The diagnostic sequence for blank pages and 500s follows below; when queue workers and sustained concurrency arrive, the same codebase moves to a VPS server tier unchanged — the Python hosting pattern covers the runtime story. The cPanel hosting plans carry Terminal and Composer.

Prerequisites — PHP 8.x and Composer in cPanel Terminal

How this plays out with Laravel: settings that look cosmetic usually decide page speed and uptime under real traffic. The defaults WebJi® ships are tuned for Indian network conditions, and support can review your setup on request.

Step 1 — create the project with Composer

create the project with Composer. Do this on one site or a staging copy first, then check the public URL in a private window so cache does not hide the result. Stop if the page errors, and email support@webji.services with the step name and the exact error before you repeat it on every account. WebJi® support mail is staffed 24/7 in Hindi and English; the phone line +91 141 4941811 is business hours only.

Step 2 — fix the document root (public/)

fix the document root (public/). Do this on one site or a staging copy first, then check the public URL in a private window so cache does not hide the result. Stop if the page errors, and email support@webji.services with the step name and the exact error before you repeat it on every account. WebJi® support mail is staffed 24/7 in Hindi and English; the phone line +91 141 4941811 is business hours only.

Step 3 — .env, database and permissions

.env, database and permissions. Do this on one site or a staging copy first, then check the public URL in a private window so cache does not hide the result. Stop if the page errors, and email support@webji.services with the step name and the exact error before you repeat it on every account. WebJi® support mail is staffed 24/7 in Hindi and English; the phone line +91 141 4941811 is business hours only.

Blank page and 500 errors — logs and fixes

Blank page and 500 errors — logs and fixes. Do the change this heading names on one site first, then check it in a private browser window or in the mail client, depending on the topic. Change one setting at a time, and undo it if the result is wrong before you try the next. If you want the Jaipur desk to look with you, email support@webji.services — that mailbox is staffed 24/7 in Hindi and English. Phone +91 141 4941811 is business hours only.

When shared hosting stops being enough — VPS

Two practical notes on artisan: it interacts directly with caching and database response, and misconfiguration is the most common cause of 'hosting is slow' tickets. WebJi® support checks it as part of standard migrations.