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Hello, I moved a project from a local server to shared hosting. I changed the php version for the domain. I did not change the paths in index.php, because I changed the domain redirection to the public subdirectory (I have already done that and had no problems with it before). Now, when I try to load a page, it downloads me a file. On the server side, I also made composer dump-autoload.
I will add that some links work, I can go to example.com/home, but if I want to get to example.com it does not work
What else should I check?
Double check the folder structure, if it worked on local it should on server.
because I changed the domain redirection to the public subdirectory
You point root to public to be document root.
Or place main laravel out of public_html, see:
http://novate.co.uk/deploy-laravel-5-on-shared-hosting-from-heart-internet/
Try to use another device to load the site -this worked for me - i think it's caching issue in the server it self
Do you have a .htaccess file to redirect everything to index.php?
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