Deploying a Laravel project.

I have completed a project and I now need to deploy it. I have used FTP to transfer the files to the server. The files are in a folder named myapp in the root directory.

I removed the public folder and placed it in the root directory in a folder named public (I did this because the root directory is already hosting a single page website and I can't remove those contents.)

I edited the path in index.php to route to /../myapp/bootstrap/autoload.php and /../myapp/app.php.

However, when I access the url/public, I don't see anything at all. No errors, nothing in the chrome console, nothing. And when I access url/myapp I get a 403 error.

I'm able to navigate to the url/myapp/resources/views/index.blade.php and I can see the index but there is no css or javascript because the page isn't linking correctly (which I expected to happen when I navigated straight to the view).

The file structure is listed below with "/" being the root directory.

/
    -myapp
        -all laravel content
    -public
        -css
        -js
        -images
        -htaccess
        -favicon.ico
        -index.php
        -robots.txt
    -static website contents

Thanks to anyone that can help, I really appreciate it.