╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ CPANEL DEPLOYMENT PACKAGE ║ ║ Waste Management Backend - Ready to Deploy ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ 📦 DEPLOYMENT FILES INCLUDED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✓ DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE.txt → Complete step-by-step deployment instructions → Troubleshooting guide → Configuration examples ✓ DEPLOYMENT_CHECKLIST.txt → Interactive checklist for deployment process → Ensure nothing is missed → Track progress ✓ .env.production → Production-ready environment configuration → Copy this as .env after uploading to cPanel → Update with your database credentials ✓ database/mysql_migration.sql → Complete MySQL database schema → Import this via phpMyAdmin → Creates all tables and default admin user ✓ .htaccess (root) → Redirects all traffic to public/ directory → Already configured ✓ public/.htaccess → Laravel routing configuration → Handles API requests properly → Already configured 🚀 QUICK START GUIDE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1️⃣ CREATE DATABASE - Login to cPanel - MySQL Databases → Create new database - Create user and assign to database - Note credentials 2️⃣ UPLOAD FILES - ZIP the entire 'backend' folder - Upload to cPanel File Manager - Extract in public_html - Move files to root 3️⃣ CONFIGURE - Copy .env.production to .env - Update database credentials in .env - Set permissions on storage/ (755) 4️⃣ IMPORT DATABASE - phpMyAdmin → Import - Select database/mysql_migration.sql - Execute 5️⃣ SET DOMAIN - Point domain to /public directory - Enable SSL certificate 6️⃣ TEST - Visit: https://yourdomain.com/api/test - Login with admin@wastemanagement.com / Admin@123 7️⃣ UPDATE FLUTTER APP - Edit lib/api_constants.dart - Change URL to your domain - Rebuild app 📋 WHAT YOU NEED BEFORE DEPLOYING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ☐ cPanel hosting account (Hostinger, NameCheap, etc.) ☐ PHP 8.1 or higher support ☐ MySQL database access ☐ Domain name ☐ SSL certificate (free with Let's Encrypt) ☐ FTP client or File Manager access 🔐 DEFAULT CREDENTIALS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Admin Panel: Email: admin@wastemanagement.com Password: Admin@123 ⚠️ CHANGE IMMEDIATELY AFTER FIRST LOGIN! Email SMTP (Already configured): Host: smtp.hostinger.com Port: 465 Email: contact@getmyxam.com Password: Demo4512@ 📁 PROJECT STRUCTURE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ backend/ ├── .htaccess ..................... Root redirect to public/ ├── .env .......................... Environment configuration ├── public/ │ ├── .htaccess ................. Laravel routing │ └── index.php ................. Entry point ├── app/ │ ├── Http/Controllers/Api/ ..... API endpoints │ ├── Models/ ................... Database models │ └── Mail/ ..................... Email templates ├── database/ │ ├── mysql_migration.sql ....... MySQL setup script │ └── database.sqlite ........... Local dev database ├── routes/ │ └── api.php ................... API routes ├── storage/ ...................... Logs & cache (set 755) ├── vendor/ ....................... Dependencies ├── DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE.txt .......... Full instructions ├── DEPLOYMENT_CHECKLIST.txt ...... Step-by-step checklist └── .env.production ............... Production config ✅ API ENDPOINTS INCLUDED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Authentication: POST /api/login POST /api/signup POST /api/verify-otp POST /api/logout POST /api/forgot-password POST /api/reset-password User Management: GET /api/users POST /api/users PUT /api/users/{id} DELETE /api/users/{id} Waste Collection Requests: GET /api/requests POST /api/requests PUT /api/requests/{id} DELETE /api/requests/{id} Trips: GET /api/trips POST /api/trips PUT /api/trips/{id} DELETE /api/trips/{id} Notifications: GET /api/notifications POST /api/notifications PUT /api/notifications/{id} DELETE /api/notifications/{id} 🔧 TROUBLESHOOTING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 500 Error: → Check storage/ permissions (755) → Review storage/logs/laravel.log → Verify .env configuration Database Connection Error: → Ensure DB credentials are correct → Use full database name with prefix → Check DB_HOST is 'localhost' Routes Not Working: → Verify domain points to /public → Check .htaccess files uploaded → Ensure mod_rewrite enabled CORS Errors: → Update config/cors.php → Add Flutter app domain to allowed origins 📞 SUPPORT & RESOURCES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Laravel Documentation: https://laravel.com/docs cPanel Documentation: Your hosting provider Laravel Sanctum: https://laravel.com/docs/sanctum ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Everything is ready for deployment! 🚀 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Next Steps: 1. Read DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE.txt for detailed instructions 2. Follow DEPLOYMENT_CHECKLIST.txt step-by-step 3. Deploy to cPanel 4. Update Flutter app with production URL 5. Test and enjoy! 🎉