hosting laravel website

Posada

I am just starting out with Laravel. Can you direct me to instructions about how to set up my Laravel site on Blacknight please?

I understand I have to change some folders/paths? 

salamanca22

I am not sure how black knights environment works but the easiest way to get Laravel Working on a shared hosting environment is to set it up locally. 

Use composer on your desktop to install Laravel and any dependencies you may want and then upload the finished install to your www-dir on BlackKnight.

I don't recommend developing on shared hosting though if you plan on using laravel as you will need to do some work on the OS if you want to get the most out of it. Consider getting a cheap VPS. I.E. my development VM is only 512mb ram and does fine for developing laravel apps using ubuntu, nginx, php and mysql.

The major pitfall of using a shared host is not being able to set your public folder as your www-dir. Though you can do some .htaccess trickery if using apache. 

Graham

Assuming you're working with Laravel 4.2 and not the 5 Beta:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25724586/how-to-deploy-laravel-4-2-on-shared-hosting

mneylon

If you need assistance please contact our help desk.

We also offer cloud VM hosting which might be more suitable than our shared hosting

In either case our staff should be able to assist you

HTH

Michele

Posada

Thanks guys,
All helpful answers. I'll let you know how I get on. :)

Graham

I'd second Salamanca22s suggestion.  Get a cheap VM then you can look at Homestead and Laravel Forge.