Deploying web application in GoDaddy Linux Hosting

Question

Good day,

I am trying to deploy a laravel application to godaddy linux hosting. I am kind of new to cloud servers and I am having problems referencing the public/in

Answer 1

I understand your situation. Do this

Let's consider that the subject project called "website"

originally "website" directory is something like this.

 - app
 - bootstrap
 - config 
 - database
 - public
 - ...
 - vendor
 - .env
 - artisan
 - composer.json

Now this is what you need to do. group everything to a folder name "website" (your subject project all or call it something you want) but Except for the "public folder"

You should have directory to look like this.

- website
    - app
    - bootstrap
    - ...
    - .env
    - composer.json
- public

Now for the public folder, move everything outside and will look like this.

- website
  - app
  - bootstrap
  - ...
  - .env
  - composer.json
- index.php
- .htaccess
- (your assets css/js/images files)

You're almost there, we should just need to edit the index.php from

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

to

require __DIR__.'/website/bootstrap/autoload.php';  //where website is the new foldername

and

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

to

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

This should work now. and no need to access via "/public" folder in order to run the website in goDaddy or any sharedhosting in cpanel.