Laravel index page and directories

Question

I'm a beginner for laravel. And I have a problem about folder indexing.

When I paste all laravel files to localhost/l4 folder. Than I go to "localhost/l4" page and there's only folder indexes in my screen. Not "welcome" page.

What should I do? When I paste files which are in public folder, to main folder. There's an other error as:

Warning: require(/home/movingto/public_html/or/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/movingto/public_html/or/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/home/movingto/public_html/or/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/movingto/public_html/or/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17

I need some help please. Just wanna get laravel folder.

Answer 1

First you should go to localhost/14/public to visit the welcome page.

Second, if you apply changes to the folder places, you should as well update your bootstrap/paths.php file or index.php to proper paths (index.php is the basic loader of the bootstrap file and thus is superbly important)

What you can do to eliminate the ../public/.. from your address when you upload your site?

Move all of Laravel's directories and files, except public directory, to the one directory behind the public_html, which is homedir/. Then, copy the content of the public folder right into the public_html(not the public folder, just the content), and delete the public folder. You now should tell laravel about the changes, so, go to index.php and bootstrap/paths.php and change the path(s) to new one(s).