If you have purchased Corak Blog Plus then you will be able to find upload.zip within the main zip file.

• Uplaod upload.zip to your hosting's root folder public_html and extract it.
• If you are installing it on subdomain then do extract it in your subdomain's root folder.
• Move .htaccess, favicon.ico, index.php and robots.txt files from public folder to public_html folder.
• Remove ../ from line 19, line 34 and line 47 in index.php file, then save it.

• Create a new database.
• Import database.sql you will be able to find it within the main zip file.

• Make sure that the file manager on your hosting shows hidden files (dotfiles).

• Open file .env.

• You need to change the following information into your environment .env file.
• APP_NAME - Name of your Application.
• APP_URL - Change this to your website URL. Ex http://your-domain.com
• Remove # sign from ASSET_URL line, then change this to your website URL + /public. Ex http://your-domain.com/public
• DB_HOST - Put your database hostname here.
• DB_PORT - Put your database port here if it does not default to 3306.
• DB_DATABASE - Change it to your database name.
• DB_USERNAME - Name of your database user.
• DB_PASSWORD - Password of your database user.
• Some features such as newsletter, password recovery or new users email confirmation need to set up mail configuration and update the following variables.
• MAIL_MAILER
• MAIL_HOST
• MAIL_PORT
• MAIL_USERNAME
• MAIL_PASSWORD
• MAIL_ENCRYPTION
• MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS
• MAIL_FROM_NAME
• If you are using Mailgun, You need to update MAILGUN_DOMAIN and MAILGUN_SECRET variables.

Before start, you need to create a symlink to files storage.

• To create a symlink, you need to run symlink.php file by going to YOUR_APP_URL/public/symlink.php.
• Then delete it, you will be able to find it into public/symlink.php.

• Admin email [email protected].
• Admin password admin.

Well done!