Laravel 4: How to deploy Laravel 4 project?

Hey, I followed the following guide and it works like a charm :D http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16683046/how-to-install-laravel-4-to-a-web-host-subfolder-without-publicly-exposing-app

You can use Capistrano (http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/deploying-a-laravel-application-using-capistrano--net-35685.). Originally, capistrano is used by Ruby On Rails community to deploy Rails web-apps, but i have experience using it with Laravel project too. It is very simple. You deploying application by just one command in command line, something like this - cap production deploy.

I would strongly suggest that you start using a deployment-service for this, if you're a beginner, it's even better to start doing it right from the beginning. :) I recommend https://envoyer.io/ for this, it's a deploymentservice built for Laravel by the founder of Laravel, with zero downtime deployments and easy rollbacks. Works like a breeze! :)

I wouldn't recommend shared hosting for deploying Laravel hosting. Shared hosting has serious issues. The server resources are shared with multiple customers. This affects the performance of your website and leads to security issues. A better alternative to shared hosting is infrastructure hosting. You can use Cloudways () to deploy your Laravel website on AWS, Google Compute, DigitalOcean and Vultr in just few minutes using their one click installation feature. Hosting providers, like AWS, have amazing security features and performance. You can use CDN to boost your performance and S3 storage to store backup. Here is a blog post that shows how easy it is to deploy application on cloud using their platform. http://www.cloudways.com/blog/install-laravel-on-aws/

Deploying Laravel project on shared hosting is as easy as reading this article http://www.stuckcoders.com/how-to-host-your-laravel-project-in-a-shared-hosting/

I have successfully deployed by following these steps and have written a guide to help others, might be helpful  http://devendraverma.com/laravel-install-laravel-4-on-a-shared-host/

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