Laravel 5 shared hosting deployment issues - php

Question

I am trying to deploy laravel 5.2 on shared hosting.
I installed the laravel core app folder a level above the public_html folder (/../public_html or /home/username ).
I extracted the files in the laravel core public folder (public) and pointed the index.php file to the laravel core app folder a root above (/../laravel-app/bootstrap/autoload.php and /../laravel-app/bootstrap/app.php).
The website homepage is working but pages links are returning a 404 and it isnt pulling in any css or js.
Any ideas on how I can fix this?
Points to note:
I am on php ver 5.6
I changed the file permission in laravel-app/storage to a 777
I deleted the .htaccess fil in the public_html folder
Server is apache

Answer 1

Buddy just follow this tutorial, I tried it and it's working just fine!
https://medium.com/laravel-news/the-simple-guide-to-deploy-laravel-5-application-on-shared-hosting-1a8d0aee923e#.5lywcjmnn
Btw, you don't even need the last part after this sentence
If you don’t have composer installed already on your server, you can easily grab it to the project directory then.
In my case I did the following:
placing laravel project outside of public_html as lara folder
then I had this htaccess in it:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
and inside public_html I had .htacess with:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^awesome
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ awesome/$1 [L]
Where awesome is the directory that contains htacess (listed down) and index.php, favicon and robots.txt:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>
final change is in index.php:
<?php
/**
* Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
*
* #package Laravel
* #author Taylor Otwell <taylorotwell#gmail.com>
*/
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Register The Auto Loader
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Composer provides a convenient, automatically generated class loader for
| our application. We just need to utilize it! We'll simply require it
| into the script here so that we don't have to worry about manual
| loading any of our classes later on. It feels nice to relax.
|
*/
/* die(__DIR__); /home/{YOURHOST}/public_html/awesome */
require __DIR__.'/../../lara/bootstrap/autoload.php';
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Turn On The Lights
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| We need to illuminate PHP development, so let us turn on the lights.
| This bootstraps the framework and gets it ready for use, then it
| will load up this application so that we can run it and send
| the responses back to the browser and delight our users.
|
*/
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../../lara/bootstrap/app.php';
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Run The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Once we have the application, we can handle the incoming request
| through the kernel, and send the associated response back to
| the client's browser allowing them to enjoy the creative
| and wonderful application we have prepared for them.
|
*/
$kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);
$response = $kernel->handle(
$request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
);
$response->send();
$kernel->terminate($request, $response);