• PHP 8.0 and above and it will work on any kind of hosting

• Hosting with cPanel (Strictly Recommended)

• memory_limit should be 500M

• upload_max_filesize : 500M

• post_max_size : 500M

• max_input_time : 60

• If you face any issue in video upload or it takes time in uploading video to the server that might be because of your server. Sometimes server gives this error if you check your error log file

• The Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 15756752 bytes)

• If you see this error then you would need to upgrade your server or increase PHP memory limit by going into php.ini file. you need to google about where this file is. This file resides in different locations in different servers

• 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 flixy_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

• Go to the firebase project you might created while following backend documentation.

• If you don't have, follow the steps below and create one project.

• At first, follow this link https://firebase.google.com/



• Now, we first have to create a Firebase project. Firebase project will go through and describe what it is. This allows us to add an app to that project. It can have many projects inside of Firebase.



• Now, we have to give a name and id to the project, enable Google Analytics for the project, set an analytics location, and accept all the terms and conditions. Firebase console automatically creates a unique id for the project.

• Step 1 : Giving a name to the project



• Step 2 : Enable Google analytics for the project



• Step 3 : First Choose default Firebase account and then create project

• 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.

• 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.

• Note : TMDB may not be accessible in certain countries. To resolve this, please download and use VPN software, as browser extensions alone may not be effective.

• Step 1 : Go to https://www.themoviedb.org/signup and create account

• Step 2 : After login go to setting



• There will be you find you API Key



• Now open you .env file and paste you API Key



• Now you can access the TMDB Import function in your Admin panel

API_KEY (Optional)

• Default API_KEY is "123"

• To change API_KEY : In that folder, you can find .env file, open it with any text editor and change the API_KEY whatever you want.

• You have to add the changed API_KEY in iOS project and Android project.

• Create a zip of the flixy_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.