How to solve laravel 500 internal server error deployed via shared hosting

500 internal server error can be frustrating after deploying an application, this was the case when I deployed a laravel application via shared hosting.

After deploying the project, I was getting a 500 internal server error , after much checks here and there, I was able to resolve it

What I did was to change the PHP version in my c-panel to a higher version, after doing that, my project become live…

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