Editing File: /var/softaculous/contao/notes.txt

####### CONTAO GETS INSTALLED ONLY ON /HOME/[[USER]]/PUBLIC/ DIRECTORY ########
1. Download the contao-manager.phar (https://download.contao.org/contao-manager.phar) rename it to .php and upload it to '[[root-dir]]/contao-manager.phar.php' (There is contao-manager.phar.php available but still download contao-manager.phar only and rename to .php because few codes are breaking while executing on a cpanel)
2. Make a zip package before entering DB details in UI. (Once the script completes downloading package from composer)
3. Install without demo data.
4. Check and make our zip from the composer downloaded package.
- Delete /contao-manager/logs/*
- Delete /contao-manager/users.json/*
- Delete /contao-manager/manager.json/*
- Delete /var/cache/*
- Delete /var/logs/*
- Delete /var/jwt_secret/*
- Delete /system/logs/*
- Delete /.env.local
5. PHP REQUIREMENT LINK: https://docs.contao.org/manual/en/installation/system-requirements/
(Contao 5.7.0 requires PHP 8.3)
6. [IMP] Manually check the symlinks and change accordingly in our file. If there is a change in any of the symlinks update it in restore.php as well.
7. Keep '' in password field of .env.local file. It needed to bypass special characters in import.
8. Use the following guide to create the first page. https://docs.contao.org/manual/en/guides/add-first-index-page/
9. Take dumps on login page.

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