PHP Tutorial Laravel 4 Framework Install on Shared Host

Laravel 4

1. Installing on Ubuntu - local
2. Installing on a Shared host
3. Installing on Windows
4. Creating users table
5. Home page with controller and blade
6. Blade Templating
7. Database connection and sending emails
8. Creating user account I - GET
9. Creating user account II - POST
10. Creating user account III - Error checking & redirecting input
11. Creating user account IV - User::create()
12. Activating user account I - Mail::send()
13. Activating user account II - Update user's status
14. User account sign-in I - Route and link
15. User account sign-in II - Validation
16. User account sign-in III - Login Authentication
17. Singing out
18. Remember the user
19. Changing Password I
20. Changing Password II
21. Recovering forgotten password I
22. Recovering forgotten password II
23. User Profile
24. Database Migration using artisan

Usually, I do work on local machine when I need to learn something new. But in this case, I really want to test if it works on my host server. As you know, not many things are allowed on the shared hosting environment.

I took the "Via Download" option from the Laravel official page : Installation, downloaded the laravel-master.zip and upzipped it in ~/bin.

# unzip laravel-master.zip
# cd laravel-master
# php-cli ~/bin/composer.phar install

This installs all of the framework's dependencies.

The following picture shows the structure of files and directories we've created.

Let's look at the directory structure. The app directory contains folders such as views, controllers, and models. Most of our application's code will reside in app directory. The picture below shows the app director:

The I copied everything under unzipped directory, ~/bin/laravel-master, to public_html/laravel directory. Then typed in "www.bogotobogo.com/laravel/public", and I got:

Laravel 4

1. Installing on Ubuntu - local
2. Installing on a Shared host
3. Installing on Windows
4. Creating users table
5. Home page with controller and blade
6. Blade Templating
7. Database connection and sending emails
8. Creating user account I - GET
9. Creating user account II - POST
10. Creating user account III - Error checking & redirecting input
11. Creating user account IV - User::create()
12. Activating user account I - Mail::send()
13. Activating user account II - Update user's status
14. User account sign-in I - Route and link
15. User account sign-in II - Validation
16. User account sign-in III - Login Authentication
17. Singing out
18. Remember the user
19. Changing Password I
20. Changing Password II
21. Recovering forgotten password I
22. Recovering forgotten password II
23. User Profile
24. Database Migration using artisan