Deploying Laravel Over FTP

Question

I am working on deploying a Laravel app to a bluehost server and I am running into some trouble.

Currently, I uploaded all of the Laravel files to the root of the server, then uploaded the contents of the "public" folder to the "public_html" folder. From here I opened the "bootstrap/paths.php" file and changed the public path to

'public' => __DIR__.'/../public_html',

After this, I am still unable to get content to display. Am I missing something? It looks like bluehost is running PHP 5.4.24.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

EDIT: The error log shows

[09-Apr-2014 09:04:02] PHP Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'DIR/../bootstrap/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib64/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home1/regmuel/public_html/index.php on line 21

Could anyone help me figure this error out. I can clearly see what the problem is, I'm just not sure how to go about fixing it.

Answer 1

It looks like __DIR__ isn't getting parsed, are you sure your host isn't running PHP 5.2.* if you run phpinfo() on your host what version does it give?

__DIR__ is only available from PHP 5.3.0 onwards

Answer 2

RMcLeod's answer is perfect, just wanted to add to it something that I ran into with my web host (specifically Bluehost). Even after the version of PHP running on the server was 5.4.40 (found using php -v via an SSH terminal), I was running into the same problem where it was picking up an older version of PHP when interpreting my index.php and wouldn't recognize the DIR constant.

I had to add the line

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php54s .php

to the top of the .htaccess file which is in the same folder as my index.php

Just for context, I was trying to set up my laravel 4.2 app on bluehost and it relies heavily on this constant.