Laravel 4 on Shared Host
Place the files of the Laravel public folder i.e. css, img, js etc; into public_html folder.
Put all the remaining folders & files into another folder, say ‘laravelcore’ and place the laravelcore folder in the root
Open index.php in the public_html folder and replace the following lines as mentioned
require DIR.’/../bootstrap/autoload.php’;
require __DIR__.'/../laravelcore/bootstrap/autoload.php';
$app = require_once DIR.’/../bootstrap/start.php’;
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../laravelcore/bootstrap/start.php';
Open paths.php file in laravelcore/bootstrap and replace the following line
‘public’ => DIR.’/../public’,
'public' => __DIR__.'/../../public_html',
source: http://blog.laravel.in/how-to-setup-laravel-shared-hosts/
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Update:
Move everything from public folder to root folder.
In index.php:
require __DIR__.'/bootstrap/autoload.php';
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/start.php';
bootstrap/paths.php:
'public' => __DIR__.'/..',
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