Easiest (and best imho) is to use forge.laravel.com note you will need an account with a VPS provider like Linode or Digital ocean.

Please note that shared hosting providers may have issues running a laravel site as you will need to change the document root for the account and many are either not able (competent) or willing to do this.

railto said:

Easiest (and best imho) is to use forge.laravel.com note you will need an account with a VPS provider like Linode or Digital ocean.

Please note that shared hosting providers may have issues running a laravel site as you will need to change the document root for the account and many are either not able (competent) or willing to do this.

I don't really have money for a VPS, I do have a shared webhosting server, but that's without SSH access and only access to public_html Would that work?

You will need at the very least SSH access. Including the cost of Forge, you can get your site up and running on a digitalOcean VPS for $15 per month, not much money really when you consider the value of Forge alone.

railto said:

You will need at the very least SSH access. Including the cost of Forge, you can get your site up and running on a digitalOcean VPS for $15 per month, not much money really when you consider the value of Forge alone.

Okay, so turns out I DO have ssh access.

I just uploaded my entire project to a subfolder on my domain..

Now what do I need to do next?

I personally haven't deployed to shared (although its easy enough). Have a look at this article by Dries Vints for more info on deploying laravel to shared hosting - http://driesvints.com/blog/laravel-4-on-a-shared-host

Hope you got it sorted already, if not, here are my two cents:

I have hosted a laravel project on free shared webserver. It works just fine, though I miss the composer and generators support there, you can always hand edit the files. Oh and I didn't had ssh access. Only FTP@public_html.

Here is what I did:

1. Built my entire application in my local environment (my laptop ).
2. Created a subfolder called "laravel" inside my public_html file.
3. Uploaded around 4000 files of my laravel project to this folder (took me 1 hour mind you).
4. You can access your laravel project at www.yoursitename.com/laravel/public/index.php

This is a very inefficient way to host a project and there might be some potential security risks involved which I am currently unaware of. Anyway, that was just a 'test' project for me to see if Laravel really works on shared hosting. If you want a serious application with world wide exposure, use VPS. OVH offers pretty cheap ones, haven't used them though.

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Any cpanel etc host is pretty straight forward - if using default public html just update your public/index.php to point to wherever you upload the main app files