unable to deploy symfony project to a shared hosting web server - php

i am using Symfony 1.4, to create my project. i have tried to deploy project using the command and methods given in chapter-16 in symfony book. but i am not able to deploy my symfony project from my local computer to web server. Can i directly copy paste my symfony project to my web server?? will that work?? or is there any other method??
NOTE: i am using Propel as ORM.

Your best option is:
1. gzip up the entire project
2. export all the data from the database using something like mysqldump
3. upload the files to the server
4. import the database dump into your server database
5. unzip your project
A couple notes:
1. Due to the shared hosting environment, you may have security issues due to other hosts on the server gaining access to your php files See here.
2. Hopefully your host allows SSH access to your server account, administering a symfony project is MUCH easier when this is the case.
3. If you don't have SSH access to your account you will have to upload the files to the server without gzipping them and this takes a LONG time due to the number of files symfony creates.
4. If possible place all your symfony files except for the web folder outside the public_html folder.

When I have to deploy something I do this:
Check if the requirement (php5, mysql4 etc) on the production server matches my application.
Change the configuration files to reflect the production server.
Upload everything to the server using ftp.
Your question is cryptic, you should really specify what kind of error you are getting.

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I am setting up an IIS server in readiness to host multiple PHP web apps. These will be used within our local network so no need internet access. I have read a lot of stuff on how to go about it but am getting lost even more. someone please help.
You can refer to this document for detailed steps about deploy php application on IIS.
Here are some main important points:
Install IIS in control pannel(windows) or server manager(windows server).
Configure php. Youcan download it from php official website or Web PI(more recommand). The version over php8 may not work on IIS.
Make the physical path of site points to root folder of application. It will auto generate web.config. Set the permission of root folder to avoid 500 error.
If you have multiples version of php, you can isntall php manager to configure them.

How to host Codeigniter app on Azure?

I wanted to ask you to help me (with some tutorial link or something), what i want to do is to upload php Codeigniter application on azure?
Also in my application, I got upload feature so I should make it work too (don't know if it's more complex becasue of that).
I was using wamp during developing, now I need to push it on server.
Generally, deploy a CI application to Azure Web Apps is simple, you can simply create an Azure Web Apps on Azure portal, then step in the manage page of your Azure Web Apps, click All settings=>deployment source=>chose source=>Local Git Repository to set the git deployment setting of your Azure Web Apps service.
Then you can find the Git clone url under the essential tab.
Additionally, Azure App Service can run php composer.phar install when you run git push, but it's not enabled by default. To enable it, you need to install the Composer extension for your web app.
Here is a CI template on Azure sample, you can refer to https://github.com/Azure-Samples/app-service-web-php-get-started for any hits.
And here is a video https://youtu.be/bBb_Hi2Odqc, you can refer to. It manages on the classic portal, but still works today.
Deploying Codeigniter is very easy, all you need to make sure is placing the project directory correctly.
Just upload the project folder to the hosting either by SSH or FTP.
Modify the .htaccess file accordingly.
Once all the above is set up, including uploading all the files to host, don't forget to update config.php database.php and route.php with new hosting parameters.
To make your upload feature work correctly you just need to give proper/required write access to the upload folder of the application.
And that's all you need to do while deploying Codeigniter application.

Azure Web Apps: FTP-uploaded file permissions

I'm in the process of getting a Laravel 5 app working on Azure Web Apps and am encountering an issue via Laravel's temporary storage.
Any time a template renders, Laravel attempts to cache it to the local filesystem. Unfortunately, for some reason Laravel doesn't have permission to write to its storage directory.
I am deploying my application from my build server via FTP
I am running on the free-tier shared infrastructure (just while I'm getting set up)
My deployment server is running Linux
In this circumstance, it's obvious what the problem is. Unfortunately, what I don't understand is why my web server doesn't have access to write to the directories my FTP user uploads.
Ideally any solution offered will be one that I can automate as part of my deploy process.
According to http://clivern.com/working-with-laravel-caching/, you can change the directory of the cache files using the cache.php configuration file. I'd like to suggest you to use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] to obtain the root folder of your web app, and then construct a path for the cache files.

Laravel Deployment

I have a working Laravel application on my desktop. I am trying to deploy it to a godaddy server. The application has been copied and verified on the server in the same structure format as on my desktop. I have changed the database information in the config to the proper entries. When I run from the server I get the error:
FatalErrorException
Class 'name of the class' not found.
The error is generated in the Routes.php file.
Again this app works locally, any idea why it errors when deployed?
Assuming you have a VPS server running Apache (or whatever else) with a a properly configured vhost and terminal (ssh) access, if you want deploy a Laravel app there, you surely need to
Copy all project files, except for the vendor directory, from localhost to your server
Verify file ownage and access rights (chown/chmod)
Change all necessary config
run a composer update
run php artisan migrate to create the database scheme
clear cache php artisan cache:clear
Next thing is populating the database with your apps data from localhost. You can either do it manually (dump sql local, import it on server), or if you want Laravel for it you can use Seeding (Laravel docs).
There even is a nice package that let's you automaticaly generete Seeders from your current database content - so it's very useful for the purpose of moving the app to another server.
https://github.com/orangehill/iseed
Inverse seed generator (iSeed) is a Laravel 4 package that provides a
method to generate a new seed file based on data from the existing
database table.
EDIT
If you are using a shared hosting account, check out this guide
http://driesvints.com/blog/laravel-4-on-a-shared-host
This post from Laravel forum might also be of use
http://forums.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=9639

PHP shell_exec doesn't work in Windows Azure

We need to execute an .exe file in a remote Windows Azure Server.
We call it from PHP with shell_exec. The .exe should create new files in two different folders into the server and generate data entries in a data base and returns a string, but it doesn’t work.
We don’t have any problem executing it in our local server with windows 7 Enterprise and IIS 7. That’s why we thought it could be a permissions problem, and then we have created a .user.ini file with the following content:
safe_mode= off
safe_mode_exec_dir= off
Unfortunately it doesn’t work too.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
You are most probably working with Windows Azure Web Sites. This is a high-density shared hosting with tightened security. If you need things like shell_exec you shall move to Windows Azure Cloud Service (Web Role), where you have full control over the OS and web server / php settings.
Using Cloud Service you will be able to use shell_exec. However when you move to Cloud Service you have begin thinking of saving files in Azure Blob Storage, as the local storage for cloud service is:
Not persistent
not synchronized across role instances
If you want don't yet know what Role and Role Instance is, or are little confused, please go through this article.

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