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• Before cloning project on server run below command. ref

$ umask 0022

• Then clone your project
• Run composer update ```$ composer update`
• Give required permissions

$ chmod 0777 -R storage/
$ chmod 0777 -R bootstrap/cache
$ php artisan storage:link

• Now create .htaccess and add below code

RewriteEngine on

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub\.domain\.com$
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)?$ ./public/$1

• Done. Enjoy

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If only home page is showing properly and other pages are not working, then follow below steps

Lets say your project is under folder /var/www/html/ and call it as root folder of your project

1. Enable rewrite mode in server and restart server $ service httpd restart
2. Find and edit httpd.conf may be at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Find below code and change it to

<Directory "/var/www">
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory "/var/www/html">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

Note: If you dont do this step then you cant access other pages of laravel. For example,

• domain.com/ - Accessible
• domain.com/other_pages - Not accessible. Then you can access this page by domain.com/index.php/other_pages

Hence, to fix this issue, we need this step.

3. Restart the server $ service httpd restart

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