Installing Laravel 5 application on DirectAdmin VPS

Question

I read and tried several methods and none worked. I always get either 400 or 500 error. The app works perfectly on localhost.

What are the exact steps in order to get Laravel 5 up and running on a VPS with DirectAdmin CP??

Please don't link to other questions as I read them all. Some don't even work with Laravel 5 anymore.

Note: DirectAdmin sees public_html as the document root.

I have SSH root access and Composer is installed.

VPS Configs: Apache 2.4.9 and PHP 7.0.3.

Would you mind providing a reason for that downvote? – Vahid Amiri Feb 14 '16 at 09:38 — Vahid Amiri, Feb 14 '16 at 09:38
What errors do you see from your apache error log? – Margus Pala Feb 14 '16 at 12:01 — Margus Pala, Feb 14 '16 at 12:01

Vahid Amiri · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-14T15:12:32.547

Turns out DirectAdmin has a section where you can define custom Apache configs (including Document root). So here are the steps:

1- Login to your admin area (as System Admin)

2- From Extra features select Custom Httpd Configurations

3- Select the domain you want to config

4- In the textarea at the top enter the following:

|?DOCROOT=/home/username/domains/example.com/public_html/public|

5- Click save. Now wait for a minute or two and voila! It works.

Obviously you need to change the username and example.com according to your setup.

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