Deploy ZF2 site to shared host

Question

When you deploy a Zend Framework website to a shared host, you usually cannot change the DocumentRoot to point at the public/ folder of the website. As a result the URL to t

Answer 1

Are you using the skeleton app?

that seems a little over the top, surely it's lot simpler than that.

move everything from public to the root

change index.php

<?php
/**
 * This makes our life easier when dealing with paths. Everything is relative
 * to the application root now.
 */
//chdir(dirname(__DIR__));
chdir(__DIR__);

// Setup autoloading
require 'init_autoloader.php';

// Run the application!
Zend\Mvc\Application::init(require 'config/application.config.php')->run();

Simples.

If you are running an application like this you may want to block direct access to some of the Zend Framework folders using htaccess etc