uploading app on bluehost shared server

Hi,

I just finished my first project with a sqlite server

I have an old website running on a bluehost shared server where i want to upload my app. Now I have read that shared hosting is not recommended and so on, but i do want to give it a try on bluehost before buying some new serverspace.

i'm trying to upload my app on a subdomain (project.mywebsite.com) so the current website can stay online.

I registerd a new subdomain on my bluehost account, that is pointing to a new carpet in the public_html

I uploaded all my files to a new folder laravel on the root.

My questions:

Do i have to upload all the project files to my server? the carpet node_modules and vendor are taking forever...

what about my .env file? I cant find clear information on this matter. Do i change my APP_ENV to production and APP_DEBUG to false, and thats it?

APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false

my index.php file is pointing to my laravel folder.

I backed up twice because i'm coming from a folder inside the public_html. Is this the way to go?

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

and the .htaccess

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

    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

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

right now my project.mywebsite.com is giving me a white page with nothing on

I have read this comment on a old post

I recently deployed a Laravel site to bluehost. Since I use my bluehost account for several sites, i have a subdirectory for each inside my /public_html directory. I deployed the entire laravel site to the subdirectory for my site, then I created a subdomain to point to the laravel /public folder for its document root. so deploy to /public_html/mysite/ subdomain doc root=> /public_html/mysite/public Then the laravel config works with its original settings.

Is this a better way?

Thanks!