I’m trying to deploy a laravel version 11 but I got HTTP ERROR 500, I used FileZilla to transfer files because cPanel doesn’t has SSH.

I followed some tutorials and moved the .htaccess, index.php from public directory to the public_html directory and changed the paths from ./../ to ./
and when I try to access a route like login it sends a forbidden error.

Index.php

<?php

use IlluminateHttpRequest;

define('LARAVEL_START', microtime(true));

// Determine if the application is in maintenance mode...
if (file_exists($maintenance = __DIR__.'/storage/framework/maintenance.php')) {
    require $maintenance;
}

// Register the Composer autoloader...
require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

// Bootstrap Laravel and handle the request...
    (require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/app.php')
        ->handle(Request::capture());

.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews -Indexes
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

    # Send Requests To Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# php -- BEGIN cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
# Set the “ea-php82” package as the default “PHP” programming language.
<IfModule mime_module>
  AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php82 .php .php8 .phtml
</IfModule>
# php -- END cPanel-generated handler, do not edit

bootstap.app

In the cPanel I found a marked error x “syntax error” on the line of the return, I copied the code and put it on VS code and doesnot trigger any error ! so I don’t know is this is the issue or not !!

<?php

use IlluminateFoundationApplication;
use IlluminateFoundationConfigurationExceptions;
use IlluminateFoundationConfigurationMiddleware;

return Application::configure(basePath: dirname(__DIR__))
    ->withRouting(
        web: __DIR__.'/../routes/web.php',
        api: __DIR__.'/../routes/api.php',
        commands: __DIR__.'/../routes/console.php',
        health: '/up',
    )
    ->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
        $middleware->web(append: [
            IlluminateCookieMiddlewareEncryptCookies::class,
            IlluminateCookieMiddlewareAddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
            IlluminateSessionMiddlewareStartSession::class,
            IlluminateViewMiddlewareShareErrorsFromSession::class,
            IlluminateFoundationHttpMiddlewareValidateCsrfToken::class,
            IlluminateRoutingMiddlewareSubstituteBindings::class,
            IlluminateSessionMiddlewareAuthenticateSession::class,
            AppHttpMiddlewareSetLocale::class,
        ]);

I moved the .htaccess, index.php from public directory to the public_html directory and changed the paths from ./../ to ./
I checked the log files and it doesnot type any new errors. I searched for errors in log and storage and I didnot find any new errors and tried using try and catch and it didnot return errors !!