title: How to run a Laravel project that is downloaded from a cPanel?
body: <p>SOLVED: My machine didn't have MySQL installed and was having a hard time installing it and I still do.</p>
  
  <p>I recently downloaded a Laravel project from cPanel and I wish to work on it. But when I try to run the project I get "500 server error".</p>
  
  <p>After searching on Google, I tried the following steps</p>
  
  <pre><code>composer update --no-scripts
  php artisan key:generate
  php artisan migrate
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This does not seem to be doing anything. How do I run the project on my local machine that I downloaded from the cPanel?</p>