• 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

• 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

• 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.

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 homely_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.