Deploying Laravel to Bluehost - deployment

Question

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience deploying larval to blue host? I was flowing an youtube tutorial that showed how to deploy a larval application to a shared hosting service. It was using Godaddy.com, however, i was using Bluehost, and it didn't work as expected. However I managed to getting to not return an internal server error.
What I did was to configure the .env file so that it had my correct database information and my APP_URL to point to my domain.
The youtube tutorial said I should also remove everything from the public folder and place it in the applications main folder, which on Bluehost is the public_html folder. I also changed the .htaccess and removed the public in the rewrite that handles the redirects for trailing slashed.
Now, when I point to my website, all that is served up is a blank screen. but something seems to be working because I uploaded an html webpage that renders to the browser. I just wondering where do I go from here to get the entire site running.
i'm using php 5.6.
Any help would be great. Thank you

Answer 1

I think you are using shared hosting
Follow these steps
1: After upload files to public_html move all your /public files in public_html folder All files like index.php, .htaccess and assets folder etc
2: Find the following line in index.php
require __DIR__.’/../bootstrap/autoload.php’;
require __DIR__.’/../project/bootstrap/autoload.php’;
change to
require __DIR__.’/bootstrap/autoload.php’;
require __DIR__.’/project/bootstrap/autoload.php’;
That’s it. Well then, have fun.

Answer 2

check that the PHP version is correct for Laravel
in cPanle enable FastCGI for PHP
open file .htaccess located in /public and edit
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteBase /public/
# For security reasons, Option followsymlinks cannot be overridden.
# Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 3

This is my .htaccess codes which are different in different server.
#Default Setup
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
# php -- BEGIN cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
# Set the “ea-php72” package as the default “PHP” programming language.
<IfModule mime_module>
AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php72 .php .php7 .phtml
</IfModule>
# php -- END cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
//bluehost------------
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews -Indexes
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]