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phplaravel
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Hard worker

Reputation: 4066

The public folder of Laravel, using Laravel just for one website and potential conflicts?

On my windows server we host dozens of websites and web apps. We use WAMP.

I am learning about Laravel and want to use it for just website. According to this guide (http://codehappy.daylerees.com/project-structure) which is talking me through the project structure, "public is the directory that you must point your web server to".

So if I host the site on wamp/www/projects/example_site

And use a vhost to rename to point www.examplesite.com to the example_site folder, can I use example_site are the public folder? And will this cause any conflicts with my other projects on the parent folders? It seems like Laravel does things to session storage and other important things and it's extremely important the other sites aren't affected since they get millions of hits.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 536

Answers (2)

hayhorse
hayhorse

Reputation: 2652

You could locate your laravel installation outside of the "projects" folder, for example at "wamp/www/laravel", and then create a symlink at "wamp/www/projects/laravel" that points to "wamp/www/laravel/public".

Symlink Reference: http://nareshkhokhani.blogspot.com/2008/05/virtual-directory-in-wamp-using.html

Upvotes: 0

msturdy
msturdy

Reputation: 10794

It might be a better idea to include the project files somewhere else on the server, outside of the web directory and simply direct the webserver to the relevant public folder using the virtual host configuration:

For example, the various Laravel installations could go into folders:

C:/wamp/projects/site1
C:/wamp/projects/site2
C:/wamp/projects/site3

then simply configure the virtual hosts in apache like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName site1.com
    DocumentRoot C:/wamp/projects/site1/public
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName site2.com
    DocumentRoot C:/wamp/projects/site2/public
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName site3.com
    DocumentRoot C:/wamp/projects/site3/public
</VirtualHost>

Upvotes: 1

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