I have recently completed my first laravel site, but now I am stuck with deployment. This is an entirely new concept for me. My webspace is supplied by 1&1.
I have attempted several tutorials, but none seem to work. Based on the tutorial here at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22075238/uploading-laravel-project-onto-web-server
I structured my server folders like so:
(note when first FTPing my server, there was no www or html_docs, only a logs folder).
In the www, my index.php was altered to:
require __DIR__.'/../laravel/bootstrap/autoload.php';
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../laravel/bootstrap/start.php';
In the laravel/bootstrap/paths.php file I altered:
'public' => __DIR__.'/../../www',
When visiting my domain in a browser, for example: myDomain.co.uk - the site is redirected to a "placeholder" (named /defaultsite) page for 1&1 domains and states "This domain name has just been registered."
If I append /www/index.php for example, I get file does not exist, even though the file is residing in my structure above.
As you probably noticed I am very new to server side aspects such as FTPing ect. I have read a few tuts, and all seem to take a different approach, leaving me confused to the best method. I am not sure where to go from here, so any advice is appreciated. Thank you.
Well the first problem is your using 1&1 for webhosting... (Ok Ok that's my personal opinion but still).
The settings look correct, however your root domain will automatically load your www folder so why would you append /www/index.php? You should just type domain.com/index.php.
If this is loading the placeholder page, you can always create a test.html in your www directory (just put in dummy text) and then access it - domain.com/test.html. If it loads then it something with 1and1 and you'll need to contact them.
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