Deploying Laravel on shared hosting apache server - making public is the root document

In most cases you must config the root directory of your domain/subdomain with the config tools that your providers offers.

still need help here

https://medium.com/laravel-news/the-simple-guide-to-deploy-laravel-5-application-on-shared-hosting-1a8d0aee923e

and using git https://github.com/petehouston/laravel-deploy-on-shared-hosting

Thanks @BezhanSalleh :)

Is there a need to change public_path ?

yes, since your domain points to the public folder for accessing your web app you need to amend the paths accordingly, otherwise it won't work.

checkout this http://blog.netgloo.com/2016/01/29/deploy-laravel-application-on-shared-hosting/ everything is explained here and the four methods you can deploy on shared hosting and what's best and why...