Laravel Project in Hostinger

@jlrdw hi i'm really sorry to to thank u very late Thanks for u reply that true i saw a lot of videos telling move index file , but i don't understand your reply i really clearly can u explain me more please

@Russelmhardy see https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/deployment#nginx

Notice this line:

root /srv/example.com/public;

And if Apache it's done with a virtual host. The above points to public as the document root to protect the application.

All request go through public/index.php.

@Snapey I am actually just going through this issue. My .env was exposed when testing, so I am trying several configurations now, but seem to be stuck - would be great if somebody could point out the issue, something to try or direction of action. I have tried playing with .htaccess, with no success.

1. I am using a Hostinger shared hosting called Business Hosting.
2. Moved project one level up, to the same level as public_html is and symlinked my public with public_html.
3. Site is loading

ISSUE: built assets are not loading and keep getting 404 for each asset, even if they do exist with correct names and permissions.

@auriakslt First you don't modify the htaccess that comes with laravel.

You can add another one to root, this one from user @tray2 htaccess

#Rewrite everything to subfolder
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ public/ [L]

I use this one:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ ^ [N]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (\.\w+$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/ 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ server.php

Make another index.php in root and have only this code:

<?php

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

I suggest take the time to learn more about htaccess.

But no matter you achieve this, you need to point to public as document root.