deploy laravel 4 app in a subdomain

Question

I\'m about to deploy laravel 4 on a shared web host into a subdomain and I\'m a bit confused about what to do. I got it working on a hostpapa account but wasnt happy with th

Answer 1

Josh answer was very helpful, but it did not work or did not matched my case. I will tailor my solution like his one, so everyone could follow easily:

Step 1: My chosen folder structure:

/
 home
   username
     public_html
       subdomain-name
     laravel-files
     ...other folders etc

Note: my subdomain is inside the public_html folder.

Step 2: Uploaded my Laravel files above the root (above/out of public_html) in a subfolder: laravel-files (//home/username/laravel-files)

Step 3: edit your public/index.php and your bootstrap/paths.php files:

In paths.php

Don't change:

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

to:

'app' => __DIR__.'/../../laravel-files/app',

because it's useless - it will evaluate to the following path:

"/home/username/laravel-files/bootstrap/../../laravel-files/app"

so the default is enough to just get out of bootstrap and enter app.

Instead, change:

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

to:

'public' => __DIR__.'/../../public_html/subdomain-name',

Also, don't change: 'base' => DIR.'/..', 'storage' => DIR.'/../app/storage',

In index.php

change:

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

to:

require __DIR__.'/../../laravel-files/bootstrap/autoload.php';

and change:

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

to:

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../../laravel-files/bootstrap/start.php';

Upload your laravel project to the "laravel-files" folder, except the public folder. Content of "public" folder, should instead be uploaded to the "subdomain-name" folder.