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Laravel on cPanel Hosting: 5 Common Problems and How to Work Around Them
Everything works on your machine. Then you upload to cPanel and something breaks.
You probably know this scene. Your Laravel app is done, php artisan serve runs without complaints, and every test is green. You zip the project, upload it through File Manager, and open the domain. A 500 page greets you.
You fix that, and now the styling is gone because of Vite manifest not found. You fix that too, and then you notice the notification emails never arrive, because nothing is processing the queue.
None of this means you did something wrong. cPanel is comfortable for simple websites, but Laravel has needs that cPanel does not always meet. In this article we go through the five problems that show up most often, with workarounds for each, and then ask the question that matters: when should we stop working around the limits and move to different hosting?
One note before we start. cPanel features depend heavily on the hosting provider. A menu you see on one host may be disabled on another, so treat this article as a map, not a guarantee.
