Setup Laravel 4 in Shared Hosting with securing Laravel base file

1. Assume that you have file structure something like this:-

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    /home/username/public_html
   

2. Create new folder outside public_html:-

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    /home/username/main-laravel
   

3. Move all the main file of Laravel (app, boostrap, vendor, composer.json, composer.lock, phpunit.xml etc) into that folder (step 1) except Public folder

4. Open /home/username/main-laravel/bootstrap/paths.php and edit to look like this:-

   • replace 'app' => __DIR__.'/../app', to 'app' => __DIR__.'/../../main-laravel/app',
   • replace 'public' => __DIR__.'/../public', to 'public' => __DIR__.'/../../public_html/laravel',
   • replace 'base' => __DIR__.'/..', to 'base' => __DIR__.'/../../main-laravel',
   • replace 'storage' => __DIR__.'/../app/storage', to 'storage' => __DIR__.'/../../main-laravel/app/storage',

     Then SAVE

5. Now create a new folder inside public_html

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    /home/username/public_html/laravel
   

6. Now, move all the content in public folder of Laravel into that folder (step 4)

7. Open /home/username/public_html/laravel/index.php and edit to look like this:-

   • replace require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php'; to require __DIR__.'/../../main-laravel/bootstrap/autoload.php';
   • replace $app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/start.php'; to $app = require_once __DIR__.'/../../main-laravel/bootstrap/start.php';

     Then SAVE

8. Now create .htaccess in /home/username/public_html and insert this code:-

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    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^laravel
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ laravel/$1 [L]
   

   Then SAVE

Now, your laravel website can be access at http://[username].com

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