How to change public folder to public_html in laravel 8?

You have to follow 2 steps to change your application's public folder to public_html then your can deploy it or anything you can do :)

1. Edit \App\Providers\AppServiceProvider register() method & add this code .

    // set the public path to this directory
    $this->app->bind('path.public', function() {
        return base_path().'/public_html';
    });
   

2. Open server.php you can see this code

   if ($uri !== '/' && file_exists(__DIR__.'/public'.$uri)) {
      return false;
   }
   
   require_once __DIR__.'/public/index.php';
   

Just Replace it with :

  if ($uri !== '/' && file_exists(__DIR__.'/public_html'.$uri)) {
   return false;
  }

  require_once __DIR__.'/public_html/index.php';

Then serve your application with php artisan serve, you also can deploy it on your Cpanel shared hosting where primary document root public_html

there, idk if you have same problem like me, my cases is i using shared hosting, and i deploy it in my main domain. i place all my files in the root, my problem is the storage:link keep between public, not public_html (because its default by the hosting) so what i need to do i changhe the link using this code :

Before :

'links' => [
        public_path('storage') => storage_path('app/public'),
    ],

After :

'links' => [
    app()->basePath('public_html/storage') => storage_path('app/public'),
],

I hope it can help few people :)

You can rename your public directory to whatever you want and tell Laravel to use the current directory path as the public path. Just navigate to the index.php inside the public folder (or whatever you renamed it to) and add the following code after the $app definition:

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';

/* *** Add this code: *** */
$app->bind('path.public', function() {
    return __DIR__;
});
/* ********************** */

Just Rename the "public" folder to "public_html" and it will work. No changes are required in the code. Tested in Laravel 8.