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george1's avatar

Deploying Laravel on Shared Hosting

When I deploy my application on a shared hosting server, I am getting the following error :

/hermes/bosnacweb04/bosnacweb04cc/b1051/ipg.username/domain/vendor/composer/../../app/helpers.php

I have no idea why this error appears as I know that this pathname translates into:

/hermes/bosnacweb04/bosnacweb04cc/b1051/ipg.username/domain/app/helpers.php where the file helpers.php does exist (Helpers.php).

I am really unsure of where exactly this path is being generated, so I can go and try changing the case from 'h' to 'H' maybe that would solve the issue.

Help will be much appreciated.

Here is the full error where 'username' and 'domain' being the username of my host and the project name respectively.

Warning: require(/hermes/bosnacweb04/bosnacweb04cc/b1051/ipg.username/domain/vendor/composer/../../app/helpers.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hermes/bosnacweb04/bosnacweb04cc/b1051/ipg.username/domain/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php on line 67 Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/hermes/bosnacweb04/bosnacweb04cc/b1051/ipg.username/domain/vendor/composer/../../app/helpers.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php-7.1.1-precise/lib/php') in /hermes/bosnacweb04/bosnacweb04cc/b1051/ipg.username/domain/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php on line 67

Furthermore, I am using iPage as my sharing host.

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JohnBraun's avatar

I can only recommend you to just go with a VPS (virtual private server). The two providers I would recommend are linode or DigitalOcean.

george1's avatar

Ok but I have another laravel website on the same server which works

Sinnbeck's avatar

The problem for us is that it can be hard to debug a shared server. If you are certain you have run composer install without issue, its hard to recommend anything. You could try asking your provider if they can see anything.

Snapey's avatar

Letter case IS important for most hosts. If its looking for helpers.php then Helpers.php just aint going to work.

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