• VPS with cPanel is recommended

• PHP 8.0

• Hosting with cPanel (Strictly Recommended)

• memory_limit should be 500M

• upload_max_filesize : 500M

• post_max_size : 500M

• max_input_time : 60

• Firebase Blaze Plan

• sightengine Account credential for Content Moderation : https://sightengine.com/

• Extract the folder you have downloaded from codecanyon and open the folder

• Open it and find the database.sql file

• Then open your cPanel provided by your web hosting provider.

• Click the MySQLDatabase option under DATABASES section and create database for your app as shown in the images below.



• Add database name and click on create database.



• Now we will create a user to access the database

• Like as shown in the image, enter username and password (save it to use later)

• Click on create user and user will be created



• Now we have to add that created user to database. so scroll down and you can see like image below

• Select the user from the list and select the database, and click on add button below



• After clicking on add button you will see like below.

• There you can see ALL PRIVILEGES option, check the box before that

• This will tick all the boxes shown below (Check the image below). Click on make changes and you are done.



• Now we have to import the database file. Search for phpMyAdmin and click on it.



• Then system will redirect you to the phpMyAdmin where you will be able to find the database we just created

• Click on that database

• Then find the import button on the Top bar and click on it



• It will open the page like below

• Click on Choose File button and load the database.sql file which will be there in the folder you have extracted.



• Click on go button at the bottom of the page.

• Now database is ready to use.

• Now come back to the project folder and then extract chatter_backend.zip file

• In that folder, find the .env file, open it with any text editor and make the changes as below

• There in the APP_URL Replace the https://yourdomain.com/ to Your Domain

• Change Database Configuration, as shown in the example below



DB_DATABASE = database_name

DB_USERNAME = database_username

DB_PASSWORD = database_password

• And save the file by pressing Ctrl + s

• Search the Cron jobs in your cPanel Tools search.




• Now Add your curl --request GET 'https://yourdomain.com/deleteStoryFromWeb' in Command field like as above image.

• And then Click on "Add New Cron Job" Button.



• Your Cron Job is ready to work.

• Follow This guide and setup project at firebase and collect private key .json

• Open private key .json file in your text editor.

• Copy content of private key .json file from your text editor.

• Find the googleCredentials.json file in your backend folder and paste the content in that file.

• Sign up at sightengine

• See Below image for getting API Keys (API User & API secret)

• Image

• You will be able to select the rules that should be applied, and what actions should be taken based on those rules: ACCEPT or REJECT.

• When you click on SAVE WORKFLOW , Then you will get your Workflow id for image

• Video

• You will be able to select the rules that should be applied, and what actions should be taken based on those rules: ACCEPT or REJECT.

• When you click on SAVE WORKFLOW , Then you will get your Workflow id for video, Like below image

• Copy all 4 things, API Key, API Secret, Image Workflow id, Video Workflow id

• Now Go to Admin panel and open setting page.

• Now you will find sightengine section in setting page.

• Keep switch on and paste them all like below image and save them

• Sightengine is now working in your app.

• AWS S3

• Create an S3 Bucket:

• Log in to your AWS Management Console.

• Navigate to the S3 service.

• Click on Create bucket.

• Enter a unique bucket name.

• Choose a region (e.g., ap-south-1).

• Configure bucket settings as needed.

• Click on Create bucket.

• Create an IAM User with S3 Access:

• Go to the IAM Console.

• Click on Users and then Add user.

• Enter a username.

• Select Programmatic access for access type.

• Click on Next: Permissions.

• Choose Attach existing policies directly.

• Search for and select AmazonS3FullAccess.

• Click on Next: Tags , add tags if needed, then Next: Review.

• Click on Create user.

• Copy the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.

• And Make sure that your ITEM_BASE_URL is set correctly.



• When you done all this things, After you can manage your storage from admin panel.

• DigitalOcean

• Create a DigitalOcean Space:

• Log in to your DigitalOcean Control Panel.

• Navigate to the Spaces section.

• Click on Create a Space.

• Choose a unique name for your Space.

• Select a region (e.g., blr1).

• Configure bucket settings as needed.

• Click on Create a Space.

• Create API Keys:

• Go to the API section in your DigitalOcean account.

• Click on Generate New Key.

• Give your key a name and select the appropriate permissions.

• Click on Generate Key.

• Copy the Access Key and Secret Key.



• When you done all this things, After you can manage your storage from admin panel.

• Once you have set the credentials for required storage providers, You can set the required one here on the settings page. Only one at a time works. (So yes, You have to set the credentials only for that which you want to use.)

• Local storage doesn't require any credentials.

• Storage will work fine only if you have set the credentials correctly and made required configurations on their dashboards.

• Create a zip of the chatter_backend folder

• Upload that folder to your domain-targeted directory on your cPanel provided by your hosting provider. and extract the zip file.

• Make sure that your targeted directory has the project files directly, and not wrapped in a folder

• Cheers! Now try accessing your domain, the admin panel should be live there on your domain

• Admin Panel URL : http://yourdomain.com/

• Admin Panel User Name : admin

• Admin Panel Password : admin123

• Baseurl : http://yourdomain.com/api/

• apiKey : 123

Now save these credentials somewhere and start following the documentation to setup application.

• To upgrade your project, you have to Add/Update/Remove files and fields in database . Please check below file for the information.

• File name : README.md

• Please be careful while making an updates this way, It might result in errors sometimes.

• If it comes any issues while making an update, you are absolutely responsible for that since updating existing project is not included in the support.