SiteGround Shared Hosting Laravel 11 PHP 8.3 App Guide
You Must Git.. on your Local Dev Environment.
Github. New Repository. Git Commit, Git All . , git push owner [repository-url]
git add .
git commit
git branch -M main
git push -u origin main
git remote add origin https://github.com/nortonr/laratest.git
git push origin HEAD:master
Other things lol (not necessary for this)
git clone https://github.com/nortonr/laratest.git laratest
In the final push, Git wouldnt work for me, i had to switch to Git Desktop and finish on the GUI bc of authentication with password was depleted in 2021.. so yeah.
Inside SiteGround SSH Terminal (using iTerm2 on imac):
Run commands below inside main app folder where main app files are…
composer install
php artisan key:generate
php artisan config:clear
Clear SiteGround Cache under Speed > Chacing > Dynamic Cache Tab…
Oh, and I was using SQLite, didn’t find many tutorials or posts on using anything other than MySQL, but this worked with simply filebased SQLite.
See the generic .env file that worked for me on Siteground:
APP_NAME=Laravel
APP_ENV=local
APP_KEY=base64:uGWUnL0+fBxCi/60+Ld4Rk+8ZbTRM0yRCisXWo8GVd0=
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_TIMEZONE=ET
APP_URL=https://localhost
APP_LOCALE=en
APP_FALLBACK_LOCALE=en
APP_FAKER_LOCALE=en_US
APP_MAINTENANCE_DRIVER=file
APP_MAINTENANCE_STORE=database
BCRYPT_ROUNDS=12
LOG_CHANNEL=stack
LOG_STACK=single
LOG_DEPRECATIONS_CHANNEL=null
LOG_LEVEL=debug
DB_CONNECTION=sqlite
# DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
# DB_PORT=3306
# DB_DATABASE=laravel
# DB_USERNAME=root
# DB_PASSWORD=
SESSION_DRIVER=database
SESSION_LIFETIME=120
SESSION_ENCRYPT=false
SESSION_PATH=/
SESSION_DOMAIN=null
BROADCAST_CONNECTION=log
FILESYSTEM_DISK=local
QUEUE_CONNECTION=database
CACHE_STORE=database
CACHE_PREFIX=
MEMCACHED_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_CLIENT=phpredis
REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PASSWORD=null
REDIS_PORT=6379
MAIL_MAILER=log
MAIL_HOST=127.0.0.1
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=”hello@example.com”
MAIL_FROM_NAME=”${APP_NAME}”
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
AWS_BUCKET=
AWS_USE_PATH_STYLE_ENDPOINT=false
VITE_APP_NAME=”${APP_NAME}”
