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TL;DR:<\/strong> Most shared hosts make Laravel painful or impossible without SSH. Here is how to deploy a full Laravel app with a Filament admin dashboard on FireVM shared hosting, entirely through the browser, start to finish.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This walkthrough uses Filament<\/a>, a popular admin panel framework for Laravel, as the example app. We picked it because its demo ships with a real admin dashboard, a real database, sample products, and images already wired up, so the moment the install finishes, you can see everything working, no blank starter page in sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Laravel is usually a pain on shared hosting<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Most shared hosting plans weren’t built with Laravel in mind. Composer usually isn’t exposed in the panel, there’s no clean way to point the document root at Laravel’s public<\/code> folder, and the moment you need to run an artisan command, you’re told to drop into SSH, something a lot of shared hosting plans don’t even give you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what that typically looks like, compared to running Laravel on FireVM:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On most shared hosts (what usually goes wrong)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • No Composer access through the panel, install manually or not at all<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Document root has to be manually repointed to public<\/code>, if the panel allows it at all<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Running migrations or seeders means SSH, which many shared plans don’t include<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Deploying updates means re-uploading files via FTP or SSH each time<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Environment variables are edited by hand in a .env<\/code> file over FTP<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Queue workers and scheduled jobs either don’t run at all, or depend on unreliable cron setups, since there’s no way to keep a persistent process alive<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Laravel support, where it exists at all, usually means jumping to a VPS, at several times the cost of shared hosting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    On FireVM shared web hosting (everything else, taken care of)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    • Laravel apps install directly from a Git repository with one click, Composer runs automatically<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Document root and app structure are set up correctly from the start<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Migrations, seeders, and any artisan command run from a UI tab, no terminal needed<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • SSH terminal access is included too, so it’s there if you ever want it, just not required<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Git-based deploys mean pushing an update is a redeploy, not a re-upload<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Environment variables are edited from a dashboard, saved and applied without touching a file<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Queue workers run as actual persistent processes, and scheduled tasks run reliably, so background jobs and the scheduler just work<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Laravel runs on the Business plan and above, no need to move to a VPS just to get a working setup<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • A WordPress site can run on the main domain. A Laravel app can run on a subdomain. Another Laravel or WordPress site can run on a completely separate domain. All on the same account, at the same time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Watch it happen, then do it yourself<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

      Here’s a full walkthrough deploying the Filament demo app, a real Laravel app with an admin dashboard, sample products, and images, done entirely in the browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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