• 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/

• 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 database name - database username - database password - copy all of them for future use.

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

• In that folder, find the .env.example file and copy it to create a .env file. Then open it with any text editor and make the changes as shown below.

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

• Make sure that your APP_URL ends with " / " as above.

• Change Database Configuration, as shown in the example below (With the credentials you just created at cPanel)

• APP_NAME should be without space.



DB_DATABASE = database_name

DB_USERNAME = database_username

DB_PASSWORD = "database_password"

• And save the file.

• Log in to your server using SSH or open the Terminal provided by your hosting control panel.

• Search for Terminal in your cPanel and open it.



• Navigate to your project directory. If your project is installed directly inside public_html, run the following command:


cd public_html



• If your project is installed inside a domain folder, navigate to that folder as well.


cd yourdomain.com



• Make sure the terminal displays the path where the your application files are located.

• Like below (You can check the files in the current directory) - this examples shows that the terminal is in the correct path where the application files are located. (not in the public_html folder but in the domain folder)




• Once you are inside your project directory, run the migration command to create all required database tables.


php artisan migrate



• After the migration is completed successfully, run the database seeder command to populate the default application data.


php artisan db:seed



• After running both commands successfully, your database will be initialized and all required default data, including administrator information and application settings, will be populated automatically.

• Your application is now ready to use.

• 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 .json

• Open .json file in your text editor.

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

• Create a new file named googleCredentials.json in your backend folder and paste the content in that file.

• Now go back to the Project Overview page in Firebase and follow the steps below carefully.



Click on + Add app



Click on Web



Enter your app name

Click on Register app



After clicking on Register App , you will see the Add Firebase SDK option.

Now, you need to copy only the firebaseConfig part , which is highlighted in red.

Please handle the copied part carefully.

Now, open your backend project and locate the file firebase-init.js .

which is placed at: public\asset\script\firebase-init.js

Replace only the copied firebaseConfig part in that file with the new one.

For more details, please refer to the image shown below.



And CTRL + S save the 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

• Follow This guide and create AWS S3 Bucket and get API Keys and other credentials.

• Once you collected all credentials, open .env file and paste those credentials. you will find something like below.

• DigitalOcean

• Follow This guide and create Digital Ocean Space Bucket and get API Keys and other credentials.

• Once you collected all credentials, open .env file and paste those credentials. you will find something like below.

• 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.

• 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 update your project (Whenever we update the project at Codecanyon), you have to Add/Update/Remove some files and fields in database (sometimes). Please check README.md file for the update information. (Mostly, can be found at root level directory of the project)

• 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.

• 01 June 2026

• - Bug Fixes

• - OnBoarding issue solved

• - Dependencies updated