Hey there, I’ve dealt with my fair share of shared hosting headaches with Laravel packages, so let’s walk through getting this Paytm Wallet plugin up and running properly. The manual vendor copy trick almost never works because of environment mismatches, so let’s do this the right way:

Step 1: Get Composer Working Correctly on GoDaddy #

First, shared hosting often has weird PHP version defaults or missing Composer. Let’s fix that:

• SSH into your GoDaddy account (enable SSH via cPanel if you haven’t already)
• Navigate straight to your Laravel project’s root directory (not public_html—unless you’ve moved core files there)
• If Composer isn’t installed locally, run these commands to set it up:

  php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
  php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '55ce33d7678c5a611085589f1f3ddf8b3c52d662cd01d4ba75c0ee0459970c2200a51f492d557530c71c15d8dba01eae') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
  php composer-setup.php
  php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
  

• Now install the plugin using the correct PHP version (match what your Laravel project requires—e.g., PHP 8.1 is common for newer Laravel versions):

  /usr/local/bin/php81 composer require anandsiddharth/laravel-paytm-wallet
  

  Note: Replace php81 with your project’s PHP version (check via cPanel’s Select PHP Version tool)
• If you hit permission errors, fix directory ownership and permissions:

  chmod -R 755 storage bootstrap/cache
  chown -R your-cpanel-username:your-cpanel-username .
  

  Replace your-cpanel-username with your actual GoDaddy cPanel username

Step 2: Clean Up the Broken Manual Vendor Copy #

Copying vendor from your local machine is a recipe for autoload errors—server paths and PHP extensions rarely match. Let’s wipe that mess:

rm -rf vendor composer.lock

Then re-run the Composer install command from Step 1 to generate server-compatible autoload files.

Step 3: Complete Plugin Configuration (Don’t Skip This!) #

Once installed, you need to publish the plugin’s config and clear caches:

• Publish the configuration file:

  /usr/local/bin/php81 artisan vendor:publish --provider="AnandSiddharth\LaravelPaytmWallet\PaytmWalletServiceProvider"
  

• For Laravel 5.4 and below, add these to config/app.php (Laravel 5.5+ auto-discovers providers, but it won’t hurt to add manually):
  In the providers array:

  AnandSiddharth\LaravelPaytmWallet\PaytmWalletServiceProvider::class,
  

  In the aliases array:

  'PaytmWallet' => AnandSiddharth\LaravelPaytmWallet\Facades\PaytmWallet::class,
  

• Clear all Laravel caches to apply changes:

  /usr/local/bin/php81 artisan config:clear
  /usr/local/bin/php81 artisan cache:clear
  /usr/local/bin/php81 artisan optimize:clear
  

Step 4: Fix GoDaddy-Specific Quirks #

GoDaddy has a few gotchas that can break Laravel packages:

• Check for disabled PHP functions: Some plugins need functions like proc_open or shell_exec. Go to cPanel → Select PHP Version → Options → disable_functions, and remove any required functions from the list (if allowed).
• Ensure public directory is set correctly: GoDaddy defaults to public_html as the web root. If your Laravel core files are outside public_html, move the contents of Laravel’s public folder into public_html, then edit public_html/index.php to point to the core files:
  Change these lines:

  require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';
  $app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';
  

  To:

  require __DIR__.'/../your-laravel-folder/vendor/autoload.php';
  $app = require_once __DIR__.'/../your-laravel-folder/bootstrap/app.php';
  

  Replace your-laravel-folder with the name of the directory holding your Laravel core files

If you still run into errors, check the Laravel log file (storage/logs/laravel.log) for specific class not found or permission issues—those will point you exactly to what’s broken.

内容的提问来源于stack exchange，提问作者Chandra Mohan Jha