Install LARAVEL 5 Locally Same as Share Hosting Directory (Deploy L5 Share Hosting Solution)

Question

I am trying to find the way to organise my Laravel Application same as share hosting directory.

Example inside "server" folder

1.Install fresh laravel application

composer create-project laravel/laravel main-app --prefer-dist

2.Move "Public" directory up and next to main-app folder.Rename to public_html

3.Inside public_html folder also create new "app" folder to keep all the files like inside index.php

Summary

server │
└───main-app │ │ app │ │ bootstrap │ │ ...... │ └───public_html │ app │ │─── index.php │

This is what I need to do.But I couldn't make this work! Each time I try to run artisan I got

chdir() no such file or directory (errno 2)

With Laravel 4 I was able to edit path.php and thats it.But L5 looks like one step back!

I already tried to extend Application.php class but unfortunately didn't work!

Answer 1

Here is Solution !

1.Create MyApp.php class inside app folder to extend Applicaton.php class

<?php 
namespace App;

class MyApp  extends \Illuminate\Foundation\Application
{
    public function publicPath()
    {
        return $this->basePath.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'/../public_html/app';
    }
}

2.Inside bootsrap/app use own class

Make sure comment out old one! , you don't need anymore

// $app = new Illuminate\Foundation\Application(
//     realpath(__DIR__.'/../')
// );

$app = new App\MyApp(
realpath(__DIR__.'/../')
);

3.Make changes inside server.php to target index.php

if ($uri !== '/' && file_exists(__DIR__.'/../public_html/app'.$uri)) {
      return false;
}


require_once __DIR__.'/../public_html/app/index.php';

4.Make changes inside index.php

require __DIR__.'/../../main-app/bootstrap/autoload.php';

and

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../../main-app/bootstrap/app.php';

DONE

Now artisan working and Index.php live same as share hosting!

server │
└───main-app │ │ app │ │ bootstrap │ │ ...... │ └───public_html │ app │ │─── index.php │