Laravel 8 Cpanel Deploy - 404 Errors

Question

I am trying to deploy my Laravel 8 app to a folder in CPANEL (first time I've deployed Laravel). I have searched the forum and made changes as the many posts direct. I am getting 404 errors across all pages apart from the homepage and login and register pages. This is a common error but I cant find a solution. Dont shoot me.

1.All files uploaded to url/laravel/blog

1. Public folder moved outside and renamed public_html
2. The /laravel folder now has two directories /blog and /public_html
3. index.php in the public_html folder updated:

require DIR .'/../blog/vendor/autoload.php';

$app = require_once DIR .'/../blog/bootstrap/app.php';

4. New .htaccess file added to the root of the public_html and set to chmod 755 (detailed below)
5. Renamed the cache folder in the /bootstrap folder so that new cache is created (I hope)
6. Database is linked within the.env file

I am out of ideas, I have created a test html file in the public folder and I can see this in the browser when I navigate to it. I am learning and any help will be appreciated.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

Try this in your .htaccess

DirectoryIndex index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    RewriteRule ^$ public/index.php [L]

    RewriteRule ^((?!public/).*)$ public/$1 [L,NC]

</IfModule>

Answer 2

I needed to point the subdomain/add-on domain to the public folder. No need to move anything or change Htaccess etc.... Credit to https://stackoverflow.com/users/2325620/james-clark-developer