Hosting PHP Zend Framework application on shared cPanel server
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29-09-2019 - |
Question
I'm trying to deploy an PHP application which is written with Zend Framework to a shared cPanel server.
There are not many tutorials available on this area online, however, I followed several of them. It is successful to run the test page which proves the zend framework is installed correctly.
However, since cPanel server has a default root directory called public_html/, it is impossible to simply rename it to the Zend Server's default public/.
As a result, I had two options in mind: (Say the project name is AAA) 1) upload my projects under the /public_html/ directory, then the project will be like /public_html/AAA/public, and etc. However, this one simply fails to work. My thought would be something wrong here with the baseUrl setting, however, no matter I comment ( which is to remove the baseUrl) or set to the root page, ( in this case /public_html/AAA) both failed.
2) I tried to follow the way listed in this article: http://blog.motane.lu/2009/11/24/zend-framework-and-web-hosting-services/. Still failed.
Can anyone suggest how to do it? Really appreciate your help!
Solution
Just symlink it:
ln -s public public_html
then this structure will work:
htdocs/
myvhost.com/
public/
application/
library/
public_html # this is actually a symlink pointing to public
Whatever you do, dont just throw everything in the publicly accessible area... its just bad form :-)
OTHER TIPS
I don't think ZF cares what you name your "public" directory. It's just the convention that's typically used.
I can't think of any ZF component or common use case where anything explicitly points at "public/...".
A project structure like this should work:
myproject/
application/
library/
public_html/ # this used to be public until you renamed it.