How to deploy laravel 4.2 on shared hosting?

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I developed an application with laravel 4.2.8 and now I am having trouble deploying it. I followed this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/16683938/3153380 but its not working. I am getting a white screen and the headers are returning a 500 Internal Server Error status.

I read around that laravel 4.2 is a bit tricky to set up on shared hosting is this true? I can seem to find a working solution so those that have deployed 4.2 before please help. My folder structure is like below

root/ laravel_base/ app/ ... public_html/ siteroot/ assets/ packages/ uploads/ index.php ... Any pointers?

A "500 Internal Server Error" status code (or a blank page) means that your script is throwing an error but you haven't configured PHP to display error messages. That's something you need to fix before you go further; it's impossible to code properly without the aid of error messages. Here's a brief explanation. — Álvaro González
– Álvaro González, Commented Sep 8, 2014 at 12:46
@ÁlvaroG.Vicario thanks for the pointer. I got this error Warning: require(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/www/users/hosting_base/laravel_base/../../siteroot/bootstrap/autoload.php) is not within the allowed path(s): — zinyando
– zinyando, Commented Sep 8, 2014 at 12:54
If that's how the path looks like, your siteroot is outside your hosting_base. — Álvaro González
– Álvaro González, Commented Sep 8, 2014 at 12:56

Abdillah · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-29 01:58:58Z

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First make sure that your shared host runs php >= v5.4. Second try to follow this steps:

Create a folder outside your public_html/ or www/. Ex: project/
Copy every folder and file (except the public folder) from your laravel app into that project/ folder
Copy the content of public/ folder into your public_html/ or www/ (the .htaccess must be there too)

Inside public/ locate the index.php file and change the following paths:

a. Path to autoload.php

require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php';

into

require __DIR__.'/../project/bootstrap/autoload.php';

b. Path to start.php

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/start.php';

into

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../project/bootstrap/start.php';`

After all that it should be working.

edited Jan 29, 2015 at 1:58

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answered Sep 9, 2014 at 16:26

Helder Lucas

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alexventuraio Over a year ago

I have created the folder outside de 'public_html' on my hosting and I have copied the 'public' folder from my laravel projetc inside 'public_html'. Now to access my app Do I need to specify the public folder too in the URL? I mean: lenguajemx.com/public

Helder Lucas Over a year ago

it probably can be two things. 1) Do you have public_html/public? if so make it only public_html/{contents here} 2) Have you copied the .htaccess too?

alexventuraio Over a year ago

Yes both aspects are true, I have public_html/public and I have already copied the .htaccess inside the public_html/public folder. So I'm going to do it as you said. Thanks I'm gonna try it again.

m79lkm · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-30 05:46:10Z

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I did something similar to @Helder Lucas - I also had to edit the bootstrap/paths.php file:

# change: 'public' => __DIR__.'/../public',
'public' => __DIR__.'/../../public_html',

I created a script to setup laravel projects for shared hosting environments. Here is the gist: https://gist.github.com/meganlkm/74dba6c4350ed58bf7bb

answered Nov 30, 2014 at 5:46

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m79lkm Over a year ago

here is a new gist for laravel 5: gist.github.com/meganlkm/15ae87674642590172c5

Js Lim · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-08 07:11:42Z

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Try to play with .htaccess

In your public_html, add a .htaccess to forward the request

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^yoursite.com/public
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ yoursite.com/public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

i.e.

public_html
├── yoursite.com    <-------- laravel project
├── .htaccess       <-------- this file

answered Dec 8, 2015 at 7:11

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luciddreamz · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-17 01:15:07Z

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It was pretty easy to get Laravel 4/5 running on OpenShift Online. For anyone else running into hosting issues, check out: https://hub.openshift.com/quickstarts/115-laravel-5-0

answered Mar 17, 2015 at 1:15

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Gokigooooks Over a year ago

hey lucid, when will openshift support php 5.6?

luciddreamz Over a year ago

OpenShift 3 supports PHP 5.6. Check out the OpenShift Online developer preview: openshift.com/devpreview/#technologies

Sîrbu Nicolae-Cezar · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-01 19:31:26Z

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I just add a new folder in the / folder on my shared hosting

www.domain.com

Where i add a sub folder called

public/

So that the path looks like this

/www.domain.com/public/

And from the CPANEL i link the domain name root folder to the

www.domain.com/public/

And then i just upload the laravel application in

/www.domain.com

It works for laravel 4.2 and 5. And there is no security breaches because the root domain folder is in the public folder of the laravel app, no need for updating the .htaccess file.

It just works.

answered Apr 1, 2015 at 19:31

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Vainglory07 Over a year ago

i find this answer unclear. what should be the contents of public folder?

Sîrbu Nicolae-Cezar Over a year ago

the laravel's public folder

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