load a laravel app in an apache server

Hi, I finished my first laravel app and now it's time to load it in the hosting we bought. However there is a problem, the hosting is an apache server with cpanel but there is not a terminal to execute commands. I asked for help some days ago and I found a link on stack overflow, I followed and I have this scenario: I have the www folder where I created inside a folder laravel and uploaded all the folders of the laravel application in this way:

|---www |----laravel

I copied the content of the /www/laravel/public folder inside the www/laravel folder at the same level of /app, /bootstrap etc, I deleted the /www/laravel/public folder and I changed both the server.php and index.php files with the correct path.

The website is still not visible, what I'm doing wrong? By the way, seems I can't change the pemissions in the storage directory. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

thc1967

8 years ago

Level 8

I found that same link on StackOverflow and promptly ignored it.

Does your hosting provider let you change the default root for a web site? I discovered that mine does, right through CPanel. I dropped my Laravel app in just like it was and pointed the document root to /myapp/public.

You should also check if the host offers SSH access. Mine does but I had to ask for it. This will let you do the command-line things.

If your host doesn't offer either of those, you might consider changing hosts. Depending on your capabilities and scope of the site, it might be worthwhile to consider a cloud host so you have complete control over the box, rather than a shared host where you have minimal control over the box.

jlrdw

8 years ago

Level 75

Do this, just ftp up your site correctly http://novate.co.uk/deploy-laravel-5-on-shared-hosting-from-heart-internet/

vinschi

8 years ago

Level 16

@thc1967 to be honest this hosting sucks, but the customer bought it and I can't change it and I can't believe is not possible to upload a laravel app in this kind of hosting. The problem is that there is not so much over the internet and it's my first app.

@jlrdw does this work for every hosting or only this heart-internet? anyway I did something similar except that instead of having a specific folder for the public_html I have inside the folder that contains the core, but maybe I'm doing something wrong, do you have any ideas?

jlrdw

8 years ago

Level 75

It is generic, adapt as necessary. It's an example.

See @Qlic answer here, https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/upload-project-laravel but there are many other answers on the forum covering this.

Snapey

8 years ago

Level 122

you need to identify which folder is document root then copy your public folder there and put the rest of the framework in its parent

vinschi

8 years ago

Level 16

Thanks @jlrdw, I will try today and let's see.

vinschi

8 years ago

Level 16

@jlrdw @Snapey I tried everything and now I have this scenario

/backup
/data
/stat
/tmp
/laravel 
  |_ /app 
  |_ /bootstrap
  |_ /config
  |_ ...
/www
  |_ .htaccess 
  |_ index.php
  |_ ...

I changed the index.php file adding laravel folder in the path, I updated the writing permission of the /laravel/storage folder, I updated the db and smtp credentials of my .env file with the ones given by the hosting and I set the environment variable to production. However I have a 500 error and I can't see anything. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

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