Installation

Step 1: Download Source Code.

First, you need to purchase the LinkDrop from codecanyon (opens in a new tab). After that, you have to download the source code as a zip file from there.

Step 2: Upload Source Code.

To install LinkDrop on your server, follow these steps:

Step 3: Create a .env file

After extracting the LinkDrop source code on your server, you need to create an environment configuration file:

After creating .env file, you need to browse your application using your domain to complete the other critical configuration including database setup, app settings, etc.

Necessary Setup

But before completing other installation processes you will need to create a database to store its data. After creating the database you have to collect the database name, database user name, and database password. This is an important step in the installation process, as the database details will be required to complete the necessary setup. With your database created and configured, you can then proceed to complete the LinkDrop installation and begin using its powerful features.

Step 1: Server Requirements

Now you need to browse your app from browser by your app domain. You will see some options to complete your app installation process. Here is the first one where you will see the server requirements. If these requirements are full-fill then you can go to the next step.

Step 2: App Settings

In this step, you can put your app name also you have to select your app environment and app debug mode. Environment must be production and debug mode must be false. If you want to generate a new app key then you can do it by Generate Key button click.

Step 3: Database Connection

Here is the third step, from here you have to connect your database with your app. Please put the database name, database username, and database password then you need to check the database by TEST CONNECTION button click whether the database is connected or not.

If the database connection is established then you will see the success message and you can go to the next step otherwise you can't go to the next step and you will see the error message.

Step 5: Installation

Now here is the final step. By completing this step your installation will be complete.

When your app installation is complete you will see the success message. That's it, your installation processes have been completed now.

Environment Variables Reference

Below is a description of the environment variables used in LinkDrop:

Application Settings

• APP_NAME: The name of your application (default: "LinkDrop")
• APP_ENV: Application environment (local, production, staging, etc.)
• APP_KEY: Encryption key for your application (auto-generated)
• APP_DEBUG: Enables debugging mode when set to true (set to false in production)
• APP_TIMEZONE: Sets the application timezone
• APP_URL: The base URL for your application

Localization

• APP_LOCALE: Default language for your application
• APP_FALLBACK_LOCALE: Fallback language if the primary is unavailable
• APP_FAKER_LOCALE: Locale setting for generating fake data

Maintenance

• APP_MAINTENANCE_DRIVER: Storage driver for maintenance mode
• PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS: Number of PHP CLI server workers
• BCRYPT_ROUNDS: Security rounds for password hashing (higher is more secure but slower)

Logging

• LOG_CHANNEL: How logs are stored (daily, single, etc.)
• LOG_STACK: Combined logging channels
• LOG_DEPRECATIONS_CHANNEL: Channel for deprecation warnings
• LOG_LEVEL: Minimum log level to record (debug, info, warning, error)

Database

• DB_CONNECTION: Database driver (mysql, pgsql, sqlite)
• DB_HOST: Database server host
• DB_PORT: Database server port
• DB_DATABASE: Database name
• DB_USERNAME: Database username
• DB_PASSWORD: Database password

Session

• SESSION_DRIVER: Where session data is stored
• SESSION_LIFETIME: Session timeout in minutes
• SESSION_ENCRYPT: Whether to encrypt session data
• SESSION_PATH: Cookie path for sessions
• SESSION_DOMAIN: Domain for session cookies

Services

• BROADCAST_CONNECTION: Broadcasting connection for real-time events
• FILESYSTEM_DISK: Default storage disk
• QUEUE_CONNECTION: Queue system for background processing
• CACHE_STORE: Where cache data is stored
• CACHE_PREFIX: Prefix for cache keys

External Services

• MEMCACHED_HOST: Memcached server address
• REDIS_CLIENT: Redis client library
• REDIS_HOST: Redis server address
• REDIS_PASSWORD: Redis server password
• REDIS_PORT: Redis server port

Mail

• MAIL_MAILER: Mail sending driver
• MAIL_HOST: Mail server host
• MAIL_PORT: Mail server port
• MAIL_USERNAME: Mail server username
• MAIL_PASSWORD: Mail server password
• MAIL_ENCRYPTION: Mail encryption method
• MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS: Default sender email address
• MAIL_FROM_NAME: Default sender name

AWS

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: AWS access key
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: AWS secret key
• AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: AWS region
• AWS_BUCKET: AWS S3 bucket name
• AWS_USE_PATH_STYLE_ENDPOINT: Use path-style S3 endpoints

Vite

• VITE_APP_NAME: Application name for Vite

Payment Processing

• STRIPE_KEY: Stripe publishable key
• STRIPE_SECRET: Stripe secret key
• STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET: Secret for validating Stripe webhooks

Authentication

• GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID: Google OAuth client ID
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET: Google OAuth client secret
• GOOGLE_REDIRECT_URI: Redirect URL after Google authentication

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