I have a brand-new shared hosting account and need a clean, fully functional Laravel 8 instance set up on it. You’ll handle the entire installation flow—from uploading the framework with Composer to tweaking any .env and storage permissions—so I can open the site in a browser and see the default Laravel welcome page without errors. Because I plan to start coding right away, I also want the built-in authentication scaffolding generated and the API support preset (Laravel Sanctum or Passport—whichever fits best on shared hosting). Please enable those packages, run the necessary migrations, and confirm the login, registration, and token endpoints work. To make future deployments easy, I’d like you to: • configure environment variables for database and mail (placeholders are fine for now) • set up a simple Git workflow if SSH is available, otherwise suggest an alternative When you’re done I expect: 1. Laravel 8 running under my domain/sub-domain on the shared server 2. Auth routes and views accessible and functional 3. API route returning a test JSON response with authentication ready 4. A short read-me so I know how to update or deploy changes next time I can give you cPanel, FTP, and database credentials as soon as we start. Let me know how long you’ll need once you have access.