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When moving Laravel onto a production server I like to place all Laravel files in their own directory above the document root. This keeps your files organised but does present a problem since the document root is often a public_html folder.
One solution that I’ve seen suggested a lof is to bind the path fro public in the appServiceProvider.php register method:
public function register()
{
$this->app->bind('path.public', function() {
realpath(base_path().'/../public_html');
});
}
I’ve had mixed results with this, it means the public_path does look at the correct path in controllers but when you need the paths in configs before the provider has had a chance to kick in the original path comes back in.
I’ve found a much more reliable way is to go into your public_html/index.php and add:
$app->bind('path.public', function() {
return __DIR__;
});
This updates your public path to the current directory, this even works for subfolders say public_html/beta.
After setting the above the public_path() helper correctly returns the new path.
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