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I deployed my Laravel app on a shared hosting server first it say "forbidden" I solve it by putting .htaccess to redirect to a public folder, but once i visit my domain I got this error:
Call to undefined function Illuminate\Encryption\base64_decode()
full error in an image: https://ibb.co/1mrWcLz
Perhaps double check is the OpenSSL extension is enabled or working...
It may be worth also to run the composer install command again, or simply running composer update to ensure that all dependancies are being loaded correctly, or restart the services
below is one of the solutions: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/call-to-undefined-function-illuminateencryptionopenssl-cipher-iv-length-after-upgrade-to-php8
@siangboon The problem is that the server is a shared hosting I can not run commands on it :(
@ahmeda contact your hosting support and request for enable the openssl first if it is not.
perhaps if you hosted the site correctly with the public folder as the document root and not public_html?
This is a laravel 9 project? I assume you just FTP copied your local project over?
The project should not be copied in the public_html folder.
First of all it's not secure because you give access to sensitive datas to everyone.
Second you will encounter some problems like this one for which you have written the post.
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