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You have two methods available, one requiring ssh access. Under no circumstances do you put your entire Laravel directory into the public_html directory.

SSH Access

If you have SSH access you’ll want to do the following;

• Log into your account and go to your home directory cd ~
• Delete the public_html directory
• Now you want to upload your Laravel app to ~/laravel
• Now you need to recreate public_html as a symlink cd ~ && ln -s laravel/public public_html

No SSH Access

If you don’t have SSH access you’ll want to do the following;

• Upload your laravel installation to somewhere like ~/laravel (above the public_html)
• Copy the contents of the ~/laravel/public directory to public_html
• Change the path to match your new destination

Your new ~/public_html/index.php should look like the following;

<?php

/**
 * Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
 *
 * @package  Laravel
 * @author   Taylor Otwell <[email protected]>
 */

define('LARAVEL_START', microtime(true));

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Register The Auto Loader
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Composer provides a convenient, automatically generated class loader for
| our application. We just need to utilize it! We'll simply require it
| into the script here so that we don't have to worry about manual
| loading any of our classes later on. It feels great to relax.
|
*/

require __DIR__.'/../laravel/vendor/autoload.php';

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Turn On The Lights
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| We need to illuminate PHP development, so let us turn on the lights.
| This bootstraps the framework and gets it ready for use, then it
| will load up this application so that we can run it and send
| the responses back to the browser and delight our users.
|
*/

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../laravel/bootstrap/app.php';

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Run The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Once we have the application, we can handle the incoming request
| through the kernel, and send the associated response back to
| the client's browser allowing them to enjoy the creative
| and wonderful application we have prepared for them.
|
*/

$kernel = $app->make(IlluminateContractsHttpKernel::class);

$response = $kernel->handle(
    $request = IlluminateHttpRequest::capture()
);

$response->send();

$kernel->terminate($request, $response);