403 Forbidden Laravel on shared hosting

Question

I have a shared hosting and I'm trying to make my laravel project works on it, I'm using voyager to the admin panel.

I put my app public folder inside the /public_html and the rest of the project on the same level of the /public_html, so it looks like this:

.bash_history
.bash_logout
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.cache
.cpanel
.htpasswds
logs
mail
app -> my project
public_ftp
public_html -> where my app public folder is
.ssh
tmp
etc
...

I have managed to work almost everything, but the admin panel is not working properly.

When I access www.example.com/admin it goes to www.example.com/admin/login, I put my credentials and submit the form, after it returns to the same page, then I checked the network tab on Chrome and it appears the following message:

Request URL: http://example.com/admin/login
Request Method: GET
Status Code: 403 Forbidden

Anybody knows how to fix it?

Thanks.

That's not how it should be. You entire Laravel project should reside in public_html including the public folder. Then you can write some .htaccess rule to point to your domain root public folder. — user3574492

Amrit Shrestha Amrit Shrestha · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-06T18:17:21

Usually, you should copy your files of public folder to the public_html folder and put other folders outside of public_html because it is available to the whole world.

You should modify the public/index.php file will following details:

//line 24
require __DIR__.'/../app/vendor/autoload.php';

// line 38
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../app/bootstrap/app.php';

Since you have public folder inside public_html folder, you should add one more (..)

//line 24
require __DIR__.'/../../app/vendor/autoload.php';

// line 38
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../../app/bootstrap/app.php';

Domain or subdomain

Point your domain or subdomain to {{your_domain}}/public

eg: In your case, if you visit www.abc.com it should point to /public_html/public.
for other cases, it should point to /public_html

Note:

Don't forget to update your .env file

set APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
LOG_CHANNEL=daily // considered good practice
Your database credentials
And other necessary changes...

Permissions

Normally you don't need to change files and folder permission. If you need to then set Folders to 755 and files to 644

Never set permission to 777