Laravel 5.5 Shared hosting changing from /public to /public_html - partially working

1
votes

I have read through a thread on [Laracasts thread] (https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/where-do-you-set-public-directory-laravel-5?page=2) but not sure of the current right solution especially for Laravel 5.5 ? (note: i do not have access to change any config server side apart from selecting which Php version to use - and a handful ssh commands [with limited directories i can access] ).

My case: using shared hosting, so my public directory is

/home/{mycomputer generated user}/public_html/

Initially I uploaded Laravel directory into public_html folder . The system worked with the quirks of having the URL www.mydomain.xyz/public/ as the URL to root.

Then I tried this approach of modifying the path:

  1. Moved all files out of the public_html folder to have the same level as public_html folder.

So the folders (in my previously laravel folder) reside here:

/home/{mycomputer generated user}/

  1. Copied the content of /public into /public_html

  2. Edited the index.php content of /public_html

FROM: require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php'; $app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';

TO: require '/home/{my user}/vendor/autoload.php'; $app = require_once '/home/{my user}/bootstrap/app.php';

And now my main page loaded fine (welcome view) as stated in my web.php route file

Route::get('/', function () { return view('welcome'); });

===================================================================

MY ISSUE:

However, any other routes would fail

"Not Found

The requested URL /{legitimate route} was not found on this server"

Any other steps that i needed to do?

I tried: 1. loading a simple jpg file stored in public_html folder, and that worked fine (mydomain.xyz/test.jpg )

  1. changed the route for root to return invalid view, that threw a Laravel error

Route::get('/', function () { return view('test'); });

"InvalidArgumentException View [test] not found."

  1. Tried using closures (instead of using controllers) to return a legit view - did not work

Route::get('/main', function () { return view('tempview.main'); });

What did i miss? .htaccess changes? another place where i need to change the public path?

1
.htaccesslaravel-5.5public-html

1 Answers

2
votes

I am answering depend on your trying:

Step 1. copy index.php and .htaccess from public to public_html that means into root folder.

Step 2. modify the index.php into public_html folder

From: require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

To: require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

And

From: $app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';

To: $app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/app.php';