Deploying a L5 application

About as simple as you can hope for. Copy your code onto the server, composer install and create a .env file, point your web root at the public folder.

Solutions like Forge (https://forge.laravel.com/) and Envoyer (https://envoyer.io/) make it even simpler.

Right okay. Sounds good. I've seen Forge but I was just wondering if I could do it manually. As what you've said sounds straight forward. Hopefully it is.

use git for deployment manually here is tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv4hwgQO9xI

@Robert-Broley I need to put mine up on a hosted server soon as well, let me know how it goes!

Ive uploaded all of my files to my cloud hosting. But I cannot view the home page. But I have put all of the files in public_html. I have also setup my MySQL database but how would I migrate the ones that come with L5 please?

@Robert-Broley have you point to your public folder

@Robert-Broley read my article, it should work for you, https://goo.gl/bUZM5h

@vipin93 How would I do that please?

@petehouston Thanks for the guide I will give it a try

@Robert-Broley apache or nygix? which one you are using, I know that pain you are facing , becz i also faced that pain when i try to deploy my app on cloud hosting

Apache I think as I can't run Nginx

run command "sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf" and change your "documentroot => as your public folder" and directory also if you facing problem then goto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ARpTKWc6lQ

Okay the hosting company have setup the SSH for me with

.composer folder .public_html folder - I have uploaded my entire Laravel 5 project to here .htaccess .composer.phar file .bashrc .bash_history

I am not too confident with servers you see. I am used to ftp up static websites and wordpress etc but I have never deployed an application before.

@Robert-Broley use bitbucket or github for deploying app its very easy

@vipin93

I may use git hub, I have all my files in public_html is that correct?

@Robert-Broley whats the error you got , and you pointed to public folder and did you done this " sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf" for change the document root

@vipin93

I got this error when viewing the public folder inside public_html

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /var/sites/t/example.com/public_html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/helpers.php on line 383

I have also uploaded all my laravel files to Git Hub

@Robert-Broley if uploaded on github then clone it in your document root and then "composer update"

@vipin93 I have cloned the repository and I am just going to ssh into the server and find composer as that has been installed and I will run a composer update.

@Robert-Broley if you cloned the repository then goto your document root and run the command "composer update" if you installed composer globally