laravel on shared hosting

Yes that's right, to secure Laravel install it below the public_html, then what is inside the laravel/public folder should be above the public_html.

You then need to create a symlink the public to the storage folder as:

ln -s /home/accountname/laravel/storage/app/public/ /home/accountname/public_html/storage

You may need to change the paths in the public_html/index.php to:

require __DIR__.'/../laravel/vendor/autoload.php';
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../laravel/bootstrap/app.php';

Im using laravel 7. Not sure what folder you're referring to here: /home/accountname/laravel/storage/app/public/ .

Unless what you are saying is after moving the public folder to above public_html i should then create a symlink to /public_html/storage in the following way:

ln -s  /home/mysite/public/  /home/mysite/public_html/storage

Here is a guide, it has worked for me on all versions.

http://novate.co.uk/deploy-laravel-5-on-shared-hosting-from-heart-internet/

Following it is pretty self-explanatory.

so is this accessible as a subdomain? what does it mean when it says Your laravel code base should be located in a folder that is not accessible from the web?

How do you then make it accessed through your main site e.g mysite.com

Your laravel code base should be located in a folder that is not accessible from the web?

It means main laravel should not be under public_html or htdocs.

Use the folder structure in the guide.

https://i.imgur.com/Oo6k4Fp.jpg

And htaccess add the line:

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /laravel54/   //Change this line to your use case

First, upload laravel project to /home/account_name/project_name, not public_html. Then, Move /home/account_name/project_name/public contents to public_html.

Edit this 2 line of code public_html/index.php from

require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/app.php';

to

require __DIR__.'/../project_name/vendor/autoload.php';
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../project_name/bootstrap/app.php';

and add this code in public_html/index.php

$app->bind('path.public', function() {
    return __DIR__;
});

After that, replace public_html/.htaccess with

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews -Indexes
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
    #RewriteRule ^(.*)/$public / [L,R=301]

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# php -- BEGIN cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
# Set the “ea-php73” package as the default “PHP” programming language.
<IfModule mime_module>
  AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php73 .php .php7 .phtml
</IfModule>
# php -- END cPanel-generated handler, do not edit

And edit project_name/server.php from

if ($uri !== '/' && file_exists(__DIR__.'/public'.$uri)) {
    return false;
}

require_once __DIR__.'/public/index.php';

to

if ($uri !== '/' && file_exists(__DIR__.'/../public_html'.$uri)) {
    return false;
}

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

And the last, check your PHP version in cpanel. I used php7.3 as described above in .htaccess.

Well. I hope this will help you.

This is absolutely BRILLIANT! I THANK YOU!

I am getting error:500 wonder what might i be missing?

Is is a laravel 500 error page or one from your webserver?

Should i be changing artisan file in /home/account_name/project_name/? There is a this part there:

require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

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

Nah its not necessary! I was just having errors running migrations on cmd line but all good now, it was my cli php version that needed to change