# cPanel information to obtain

- Hosting plan, account username/home path, ability to set a subdomain document root, and whether files can live above `public_html`.
- PHP version choices (must be 8.3+ for Laravel 13) and access to Select PHP Version/INI Editor.
- Enabled extensions: ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, filter, hash, mbstring, openssl, pcre, PDO, pdo_mysql, session, tokenizer, xml, and zip; recommend exif and gd or imagick for image work.
- MySQL/MariaDB version, database hostname/port, database name/user prefix, and privileges for the portal database.
- SSH/Terminal availability, Composer availability, the absolute PHP executable path, cron access, and cron frequency limits.
- SMTP host/port/encryption/account/from address, sending limits, and SPF/DKIM status.
- Disk quota/inodes, upload/post size limits, `memory_limit`, `max_execution_time`, and backups/restore process.
- SSL certificate for `clients.clickmagnets.co`, Apache `mod_rewrite`, and whether `FollowSymLinks`/`.htaccess` overrides are permitted.