php - How to host laravel4 based app on a shared hosting

Solution:

It will be better if you point to your app like

http://healthscapeseries.com/myappname

For attaining this do following steps

1. Create a foldermyappnamebase in your document folder

2. Put all your contents of the application except the public folder content tomyappnamebase folder

3. Create new folder inpublic_html namedmyappname

4. Put all your public folder content inmyappname folder

Then bring the following changes:

Insidepublic_html->myappname->index.php

instead of

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

 require __DIR__.'/../../myappnamebase/bootstrap/autoload.php';
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instead of

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

 $app = require_once __DIR__.'/../../myappnamebase/bootstrap/start.php';
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Insidemyappnamebase->bootstrap->paths.php do editting so that it looks like following

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

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

'base' => __DIR__.'/../../myappnamebase',

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