How to run Laravel 5.3 in a 1and1 shared hosting

How to run Laravel 5.3 in a 1and1 shared hosting

1.- Go to your Control Panel and set the default PHP version to 5.6 for your current domain.

2.- Artisan script

Open artisan file and replace the first line to:

#!/usr/local/bin/php5.5

which corresponds to the 1and1 php5.5 path. Now you can run artisan using ./artisan.

3.- composer.json

Open composer.json file and replace all the php references to php5.5. For example:

[...]

"scripts": {
        "post-root-package-install": [
            "/usr/local/bin/php5.5 -r \"copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
        ],
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
            "/usr/local/bin/php5.5 artisan key:generate"
        ],
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postInstall",
            "/usr/local/bin/php5.5 artisan optimize"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postUpdate",
            "/usr/local/bin/php5.5 artisan optimize"
        ]
    },

[...]

Now you can update your dependencies:

Run the command:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php5.5 

to get your composer.phar script. Now you can update as follow:

php5.5 composer.phar update


4) .htaccess

Go to your public folder and replace the default setup with the following:

5) .env

Of course you have to configure your database credentials an the rest of setups editing the file .env.

Happy Laravel