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  CPANEL DEPLOYMENT CHECKLIST - Waste Management Backend
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PRE-DEPLOYMENT
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☐ 1. Access to cPanel hosting account
☐ 2. Domain or subdomain configured
☐ 3. PHP 8.1+ available on hosting
☐ 4. MySQL database access
☐ 5. FTP/File Manager access
☐ 6. SSL certificate ready (Let's Encrypt recommended)

CPANEL SETUP
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☐ 7. Create MySQL database via cPanel → MySQL Databases
     Database Name: ___________________________
     
☐ 8. Create database user
     Username: _________________________________
     Password: _________________________________
     
☐ 9. Add user to database with ALL PRIVILEGES

☐ 10. Note down database credentials:
      - Full DB Name (with prefix): _______________
      - Username (with prefix): _______________
      - Password: _______________

FILE UPLOAD
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☐ 11. ZIP the backend folder (exclude .git, node_modules)

☐ 12. Upload to cPanel File Manager → public_html

☐ 13. Extract ZIP file

☐ 14. Move all files from 'backend' folder to document root

☐ 15. Verify these files exist:
      ☐ .htaccess (root)
      ☐ public/.htaccess
      ☐ .env
      ☐ artisan
      ☐ composer.json

CONFIGURATION
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☐ 16. Edit .env file and update:
      ☐ APP_ENV=production
      ☐ APP_DEBUG=false
      ☐ APP_URL=https://yourdomain.com
      ☐ DB_CONNECTION=mysql
      ☐ DB_HOST=localhost
      ☐ DB_DATABASE=<full_database_name>
      ☐ DB_USERNAME=<full_username>
      ☐ DB_PASSWORD=<your_password>
      ☐ MAIL_HOST=smtp.hostinger.com (already configured)
      ☐ MAIL_PORT=465
      ☐ MAIL_USERNAME=contact@getmyxam.com
      ☐ MAIL_PASSWORD=Demo4512@

DATABASE MIGRATION
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
☐ 17. Go to cPanel → phpMyAdmin

☐ 18. Select your database

☐ 19. Click "Import" tab

☐ 20. Upload: database/mysql_migration.sql

☐ 21. Click "Go" to execute

☐ 22. Verify tables created:
      ☐ users
      ☐ requests
      ☐ trips
      ☐ notifications
      ☐ personal_access_tokens
      ☐ sessions
      ☐ cache
      ☐ migrations

PERMISSIONS
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☐ 23. Set folder permissions to 755:
      ☐ storage/
      ☐ storage/framework/
      ☐ storage/framework/cache/
      ☐ storage/framework/sessions/
      ☐ storage/framework/views/
      ☐ storage/logs/
      ☐ bootstrap/cache/

☐ 24. Set file permissions to 644 in storage/

DOMAIN CONFIGURATION
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☐ 25. In cPanel → Domains, set Document Root to:
      /public_html/public
      (or /home/username/public_html/public)

☐ 26. Ensure .htaccess in root redirects to public/

☐ 27. Enable SSL/HTTPS via cPanel → SSL/TLS

TESTING
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☐ 28. Test API endpoint:
      URL: https://yourdomain.com/api/test
      Expected: {"success": true, "message": "API is working!"}

☐ 29. Test login endpoint:
      POST: https://yourdomain.com/api/login
      Body: {"email": "admin@wastemanagement.com", "password": "Admin@123"}

☐ 30. Verify OTP email sent (check contact@getmyxam.com inbox)

☐ 31. Test other endpoints:
      ☐ /api/users
      ☐ /api/requests
      ☐ /api/trips

FLUTTER APP UPDATE
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
☐ 32. Update lib/api_constants.dart:
      final String url = "https://yourdomain.com";
      final String baseUrl = "https://yourdomain.com/api";

☐ 33. Rebuild Flutter app

☐ 34. Test login from Flutter app

☐ 35. Test all features:
      ☐ Authentication
      ☐ Request creation
      ☐ Trip management
      ☐ Notifications

SECURITY
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
☐ 36. Change default admin password from Admin@123

☐ 37. Ensure APP_DEBUG=false in production

☐ 38. Verify storage/ is NOT publicly accessible

☐ 39. Enable HTTPS-only access

☐ 40. Review storage/logs/laravel.log for errors

FINAL VERIFICATION
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☐ 41. All API endpoints working
☐ 42. Database connected successfully
☐ 43. Email notifications working
☐ 44. SSL certificate active
☐ 45. Flutter app connected to production
☐ 46. No errors in Laravel logs
☐ 47. Authentication working
☐ 48. File uploads working (if applicable)

OPTIONAL OPTIMIZATIONS
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☐ 49. Run: php artisan config:cache (if SSH available)
☐ 50. Run: php artisan route:cache
☐ 51. Run: php artisan view:cache
☐ 52. Set up automated backups via cPanel
☐ 53. Configure cron jobs if needed

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DEPLOYMENT COMPLETE! 🎉
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Your API is now live at: https://yourdomain.com/api

Default Admin Credentials:
  Email: admin@wastemanagement.com
  Password: Admin@123
  
⚠️ IMPORTANT: Change the admin password immediately!

Need help? Check DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE.txt for detailed instructions.