If you are here, you are probably exploring how laravel works on shared hosting, on some low-budget project or just have reasons you prefer shared hosting. Alright, let's get down to business.
Here are the steps to get laravel up and running on shared hosting:
(1) Run php artisan config:clear; this clears the cache config. Since you are going to be editing .env online; you don't need your local configurations cached.
(2) Export Your migrated Database to a file (db.sql) without the create database statement, like so:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `users`;
CREATE TABLE `users` (
`id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`title` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`facebook_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`google_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`linkedin_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`tagline` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`email` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`username` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`email_verification_code` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`email_verified_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
`password` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`remember_token` varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,
`created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
`updated_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `password_resets`;
CREATE TABLE `password_resets` (
`email` varchar(254) NOT NULL,
`token` varchar(254) NOT NULL,
`created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
KEY `password_resets_email_index` (`email`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB;
(3) go to MultiPHP Manager on c-panel and confirm you have php 7.1 or higher.
(4) Zip the finished project (we will call this myproject from now on) and upload to root directory of hosting storage through File Manager (c-panel) or FileZilla; it should be something like /home/domain-name.
(5) Extract myproject in root directory(/home/domain-name) of hosting storage.
(6) Enable "Show Hidden Files". This is so you could see files like .htaccess, .env, etc.
(7) In myproject/public, move all it's contents to /public_html.
(8) Now edit /public_html/index.php to point to your laravel project, like so:
//previous state
require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';
// changed to
require __DIR__.'/../myproject/vendor/autoload.php';
//previous state
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';
//changed to
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../myproject/bootstrap/app.php';
(9) Edit .env in /myproject with your config keys
(10) Import and run the db.sql script you exported earlier on your created database through phpmyadmin on c-panel.
The end!
Top comments (19)
Thanks for your blog post, I have a couple of questions though 😉
How about the symbolic link to the
storagedirectory? Most shared hosting providers don't allow the creation of symbolic links.laravel.com/docs/5.8/structure#the...
And this seems to work perfectly for new installs, what would you suggest the flow would be for updates that require DB migration?
You are right, not all shared hosting providers allow creation of symbolic links so I have mostly just uploaded my public files to public_html by changing root path in filesystem config.
For update on db migrations... You will probably need a sql script to alter your tables or alter it manually using phpmyadmin.
A friend of mine recommended this package (github.com/kofoworola/route-commands); It let's you run artisan commands through web routes. Pretty neat 😇
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Nice article. This was one you. You can also do the following.
How to upload a Laravel project on shared hosting.
Mohd Samgan Khan ・ Jun 23 ・ 2 min read
it's much easier and needs min. configurations.
Added some knowledge, Thanks!
Hi, In my experience shared hosting is not recommended for Laravel. You can instead use cloud servers like Digitalocean, Vultr, Linode etc. Also if you are non-technical you can use managed solution like Cloudways.
cloudways.com/blog/install-laravel...
Simple and easy process, but at todays age most people do not prefer getting into technicalities and focusing more on the business side (talking about the start-ups). So would do you prefer to them deploying on a shared hosting, or take the road of managed hosting, where there are just a few clicks and you are ready to deploy your site. Also, your data can be at risk on a shared hosting site. What do you personally prefer and why?
Shared hosting is a bad choice for laravel. Laravel is a framework , and like other framework such as wordpress, drupal etc, it require a powerful server. For example, it requires a good amount of RAM, disk space and a good processor speed. But shared hosting is bad in all the three.If you are not a technical person, you can also choose a managed service such as Devrims.
devrims.com/blog/why-laravel-share...
Here is another resource full article about Laravel project deployment in Shared Hosting
nihardaily.com/21-deploy-guideline...
Great article explaining this process.. Thanks for the great work.
Thanks Solomon 👍
Do i need to upload vendor and node_modules to the ftp server??
Yes on vendor, not sure about node_modules - It depends I guess.
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Mr Juni 😎
Great Content. Thank you.
Thanks for reading up man 🙇♂️