INSTALLATION
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1. Upload this zip to your server and extract it. Where you extract it is
   up to you, but the contents need to live somewhere your web server can
   read them.

2. Point your domain's document root at the `public/` folder inside the
   extracted directory.

   On cPanel:   Domains → (your domain) → Document Root → set to
                /home/<user>/<extracted_folder>/public
   On Plesk:    Hosting & DNS → Hosting Settings → Document root
   On nginx:    root /var/www/<extracted_folder>/public;
   On Apache:   DocumentRoot /var/www/<extracted_folder>/public

3. Make sure the `storage/` and `bootstrap/cache/` directories are writable
   by the web server (typically chmod -R 775).

4. Create an empty MySQL database and a user with full privileges on it.

5. Visit https://your-site.com/install/ in a browser and walk through the
   four installer steps (database, mail, app URL, admin user).

6. After installation completes, DELETE the `public/install/` directory
   from the server. The installer is no longer needed and should not be
   reachable.

REQUIREMENTS
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- PHP 8.2 or newer
- MySQL 5.7+ / MariaDB 10.3+
- PHP extensions: bcmath, ctype, curl, fileinfo, mbstring, openssl, pdo,
  pdo_mysql, tokenizer, xml, zip
- proc_open OR shell_exec must be enabled (the installer uses one of them to
  run `php artisan migrate`/`db:seed`)