How to host Laravel 5.2 in GoDaddy shared hosting without SSH?

Question

I have developed a web application in Laravel 5.2. I want to host it in Godaddy Shared hosting in a sub folder, because I have other projects there for different domains.

I'm not sure if I explained it clearly, this is what I'm trying to achieve.

I have put all my Laravel files in a sub folder like (www.mylaravelapp.com/test).

Now I can access the application with this URL "www.mylaravelapp.com/test/public".

public_html/
  some_domain_folder/  
  www.mylaravelapp.com/
     test/
        app/
        bootstrap/
        config/
        database/
        public/
        etc..

How can I access this with a URL like "www.mylaravelapp.com/"?

How to solve security issues too?

Answer 1

First of all you have to allow hosting two sites in GoDaddy's cpanel. If you have access then you have to do the following things.

1. Goto this link , it is a guide to add add-on domains, and add your domain ( www.mylaravelapp.com ) as add-on domain.
2. It will create another folder in your root directory like mylaravelapp .
3. Then copy the contents of the test directory into the mylaravelapp directory.
4. Now the structure is like this:

Folders

   |`-- public_html
     |-- some_domain_folder
     |`-- mylaravelapp
        |`-- app
        |`-- config
        |`-- bootstrap
        |`-- database
        |`-- public

Now go to the public folder and move index.php and .htaccess to mylaravelapp .

Hope this helps.