How to install Laravel 4 to a web host subfolder w

Question

I was wondering if any of you know of a way to install Laravel 4 in a web host SUBDIRECTORY / subfolder while not exposing the /app/ folder and other sensible files to the publicly accesible part of the host.

The idea is, I'd be able to access http://mydomain.com/mylaravel/ to be able to use Laravel, but at the same time I want to avoid anyone doing something like going to http://mydomain.com/app/ or http://mydomain.com/mylaravel/app/ and basically being able to see my config files and other code.

Answer 1

If you want to simply setup Laravel Project on shared hosting and you have cPanel access then you can do following steps which I have followed and it worked well.

Step 1 : Make zip or tar file of your entire Laravel Application on your Local Machine.

Step 2 : Go to Cpanel. Upload zip/tar file to public_html directory and then extract it. (You can also create separate folder for your laravel application. As I want to upload more than one Laravel applications I have created separate directory for each one as shown in below image.)

Step 3 : Now go to 'Addon Domain' and change document root of your specified domain. Point the domain to public folder.

Now check your domain it will redirect to public/index.php file. There is no need to change any paths.

Answer 2

People, people! No need to over-complicate things!

(For other public folders, such as htdocs or www just replace public_html in the following with your one.)

1. Put all your Laravel stuff in the top-level folder (so that the app folder is next to the public_html folder)
2. Move all files from public to public_html (be sure to also move hidden files, such as .htaccess!)
3. Delete the now empty public folder

4. In bootstrap/path.php change

   'public' => __DIR__.'/../public', to

   'public' => __DIR__.'/../public_html',

5. Done.

Answer 3

emmanuel answer doesnt work for me but i did some changes to make it work . although i used my web root to be the source of a project . there it is ; i have htdocs folder as a root folder but you may have other, such as public_html , www or so on . you can easily replace my htdocs with the one you have .

fine .

my dircetory

root/ 
      htdocs
      .htaccess
      .override

first i solved all of laravel dependencies on my localhost on windows with composer . after that i did pack the whole package into laravel4.zip . in my htdocs i create a laravel folder and i did upload and unzip the zip file in it.

htdocs/
        laravel/
                 app
                 bootstrap
                 public 
                 vendors
                 ...

so after i did unzip the file i move everything in public folder into htdocs folder

htdocs/
        laravel
        packages
        .htaccess
        favicon.ico
        index.php
        robots.txt

now we have to rewrite some pathes in htdocs/index.php and htdocs/laravel/bootstrap/paths.php

but lets open htdocs/laravel/bootstrap/paths.php . you would see

'app' => __DIR__.'/../app',

what does it mean . it means that we are standing at htdocs/laravel/bootstrap/ path . and there for we need exit this folder to laravel folder then going for app folder . ok . this is the structure of the laravel for routing . if you get this right you can make your laravel run .

find

'public' => __DIR__.'/../public',

and change it to

'public' => __DIR__.'/../../htdocs',

(simple ha ) with one (../) of these we can go up one folder . so now we are at laravel folder . but we need to be in htdocs . so we have to write another (../) to get there .

open htdocs/index.php and find

require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php';

change it into

require 'laravel/bootstrap/autoload.php'; 

require is a built-in php function so we are going to treat it as a simple php . we dont realy need laravel style for fetching autoload.php file . so simply remove it and go for classic style

find

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/start.php';

change it into

$app = require_once 'laravel/bootstrap/start.php';