Guide upgrade to Laravel 5.8

Step by Step

• Requirements:
• PHP >= 7.1.3
• BCMath PHP Extension
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension
• Ctype PHP Extension
• JSON PHP Extension

• First steps
• Upload the ZIP file to your server
• Create a folder on your server for example called _NEW, and unzip the ZIP file inside

• Do not delete the files that you will copy below because you will lose all the changes you have made.
• Once the folder is created and the ZIP file is decompressed, we will proceed with the upgrade.
• You should only copy the files from your current site to the folders mentioned below.

• Root directory
• .env
Copy the credentials of your database again, since the file has new variables in this version.
• app
• Copy the Models folder of your current site

• Copy the app/Http/Controllers folder of your current site

• config
• Copy the config folder of your current site

• public
• Copy all the folders from your current site
Important: Do not replace the entire public folder copy all folders from your site inside the public folder.
• resources
• Copy the folder resources/lang of your current site
• Copy the folder resources/views of your current site

• routes
• Copy the file routes/web.php of your current site

Once all the folders and files have been copied, create a new folder called _backup there will move all the files of your current site as backup, after you move all the files, move all the files of the new folder where I copy the aforementioned files . There should not be any problem.