One of the biggest strength of PHP has been the hassle free deployment of PHP web applications on shared hosting environment. And despite PHP being a complete crap, maximum content on Web is in PHP because of the ease of deployment with PHP. But i have read a lot of posts discussing issues with deploying Laravel5 applications on shared hosting. If Laravel5 is not meant for shared hosting then Django or Rails are much better frameworks to stick too. I would like to know if from people who have deployed Laravel5 app on shared hosting environment,
Is Laravel5 compatible with shared hosting environment? Does one necessarily need to install anything on shared hosting or just copying files form devbox to hosting environment enough?
It's possible to just copy the stuff from your Dev environment to the server.
If you have SSH access on the shared host it's still possible to use composer directly on there (I have it on my setups and I simply love it.)
There is this forum post discussing some of the problems with Laravel 5 on shared host