File Upload

Now it's time to get our website files on the Hostinger server. There are a few ways to do this. We could use Git, however, since we have a lot of backend code, we need to make some changes to file paths, etc. So instead of using Git, we will use the super fast file manager. You can simply drag and drop your files and edit them on the fly.

Log into your hPanel and click on Files->File Manager. You should see a folder called public_html. This is the folder that the internet sees. So we only want the files from our public folder in there. So drag over the index.php and everything else in the public folder on your local machine to the public_html on the server. Make sure that the .htaccess file is included.

Next, we need to upload the rest of the files. We don't want to put these in the root. Create a folder called src on the same level as the public_html. Drag the rest of your files into that folder.

If you go to your domain, you will get an error. There are a few things we need to change.

Show errors

I want to see the errors PHP gives us. They don't show by default because of how the server is configured. We can fix this by adding 2 lines of code to the top of the public_html/index.php file:

ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

File paths

In public_html/index.php on the server use the following paths:

require __DIR__ . '/../src/vendor/autoload.php';

require '../src/helpers.php';

We are just adding the src folder.

Database Credentials

Now you should see an error that has to do with the database. We are still using the local credentials. Open the config/db.php and add the new database name and user as well as the password that you used when creating it.

Now go to your URL/domain and you should see the website!