Laravel 500 server error on shared hosting

Question

Im trying to deploy my laravel project with namecheap however I'm getting a 500 server error.I've updated the server.php and index.php to point to the correct directories but I'm still getting the error. I've checked the error.log file in the public_html directory but it doesn't give any error when loading the site. I've also double checked the .env file to make sure the correct database credentials were entered.

index.php

if (file_exists(__DIR__.'/../nue/storage/framework/maintenance.php')) {
    require __DIR__.'/../nue/storage/framework/maintenance.php';
}
require __DIR__.'/../nameofproject/vendor/autoload.php';

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

server.php

require_once __DIR__.'/../nameofproject/public_html/index.php';

Answer 1

Whenever I deploy my Laravel project in a sharedhost. These things I do

1. Copy the entire application directory (appname) inside public_html

2. Path to the domain will be "public_html/appname/public"

3. Link storage path using ssh

Answer 2

If your Laravel project is installed in the webroot (assuming public_html), then do the following:

1. Move the contents of public/ up one dir to the webroot. index.php and server.php should now be in the same dir as your .env.
2. In index.php, change ../vendor/autoload.php to just vendor/autoload.php and ../bootstrap/app.php to just bootstrap/app.php.
3. In server.php, change public/index.php to just index.php.