CodeIgniter 4 setup from cPanel?

I'm seeking guidance on establishing a CodeIgniter 4 development environment using the contents of the "public_html.zip" folder downloaded from cPanel. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the source code repository from which the web application is deployed. Could you assist me in understanding the steps I should take to proceed?

on my live hosting , i occasionally download using jet backups on cPanel , so i have a "snapshot" of how things are live. I try to avoid live editing of code , since its highly risky and instead usually just update from code in dev. However you can never be sure they are exactly in sync.

Anyway my downloads come in a tar tz format. Zip ? i wonder what that suggests ? Anyway stick the zip file on your Desktop and unzip it . Give us a view od the contents ; so we might be able to advise . Also are you on a Linux Distro or Windows ? if on linux you can quickly get an output of the unziped with the "tree" command eg

Code:

[andrew@darkstar ~]$ cd /srv/http
[andrew@darkstar http]$ ls
index.php  joesoapdev
[andrew@darkstar http]$ tree -L 1 joesoapdev
joesoapdev
├── Gruntfile.js
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── app
├── builds
├── composer.json
├── composer.lock
├── node_modules
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
├── phpunit.xml.dist
├── public
├── scss
├── spark
├── tests
├── vendor
└── writable

8 directories, 10 files

So basically you would unzip the file. Open a terminal and chnage directory to just outside it , hten similar to above

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