Laravel project on ubuntu server :HTTP ERROR 500 - php

Question

My laravel project works fine in development machine, but when i uploaded to ubuntu server i will get HTTP ERROR 500.
Here is things i've done.
1.Uploaded the entire contents of <laravel_project> folder into the var\www\html folder.
when i try to access domain.com i will get the list of directories instead of home page,when entering on public folder i will get HTTP ERROR 500 error.
Also how can get the index page without accessing the public folder (ie i need to enter to my site while entering domain.com ) .

Answer 1

There can be multiple cases
Please check you can storage write permission to storage folder
You need to define path to public in your apache configuration to be able to open without public
Server does not meet the minimum requirements of Laravel
Please try above and let me know

Answer 2

You have to change Document root directory in apache configure file.
File Location in Ubuntu Server is :
1) $ cd /etc/apache2/sites-available 2) $ gedit 000-default.conf
Find the default Directory Root and modify it with your project_directory / public_directory.
i.e. DocumentRoot /var/www/html/project_dir/public/
See this code for referance :
<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/project_dir/public_dir
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>
# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet
After edit this file. Reload apache server once.
sudo service apache2 reload