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Hello all,
I am building a control panel for a gameserver at the moment. I decided to make it with Laravel , because development on this framework is so enjoyable!
I am going to sell this control panel for a low price after finishing it. But the problem is that most users that are propably future buyers are noobs on web development in general and I want to make it easy for them to install it. Easy as possible!
Is there a way for Laravel to customize it so it is so easy to deploy?I mean upload on shared hosting, etc , users connect app with their database and they are done? Is that possible? (no ssh,etc, just with an ftp client for example) .Because my target users mostly have a website already on a simple shared hosting plan , etc.
There are a lot of tutorial on how to deploy Laravel on shared hosting. I think you can make a install.php file which helps the user to setup everything. Like generating the correct .env with the credentials and so on. This way you don't have to change that much and it makes it easier for the customer to deploy the site. This is how WordPress does this as well ;)
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