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My hoster has i public html folder where all websites are lying. Different Websites are separeted by subfolders. Should i upload all Craft3 installation files to this public html folder and point the webserver to the /web folder?

Or should i upload only the /web folder to my webhoster's public html folder and place all other files ABOVE, like it's explained in the Craft 2 installation guide? If yes, how do i configure the craft path in the index.php file?

Thank you very much for a explanation!

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Only upload the /web folder to the /public_html folder.

All other folders should be one level lower so they're not publicly accessible.

Personally, I'm also wondering why not everything resides in a nice clean /craft folder anymore. Now the craft directories are listed amongst a bunch of other stuff on a lowerlevel directory. It's probably the only one really strange architectural choice. I guess P&T is not using WHM/Cpanel etc.

Anyway: do not upload anything except /web in your public folder.

If you do it like this, the index will work correctly out of the box, since it'll be looking for the /app and all folders one level lower then the /public_html by default.

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  • That's because the clean way to install Craft is via composer and the composer puts everything into the vendor folder. It's much better the way it is now.
    – Robin Schambach
    Commented Apr 11, 2018 at 5:11
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    No it doesn't.... WHM/Cpanel, one of the most popular control pannels, with or without composer, it creates this mess. There's a vendor folder alright, but all the rest is mixed. I find this a very, VERY, poor choice of implementation.
    – tom
    Commented May 12, 2018 at 18:13
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You can place it in a dedicated craft folder or a private_html folder with composer, but then you have to edit the index.php file a bit to make it work. See Setup Craft 3 when de craft folder is above public_html on shared hosting

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  • didn't work for me. I had to set the path in the index.php file like this: define('CRAFT_BASE_PATH', '../../craft folder above public_html');
    – TomS
    Commented Apr 14, 2018 at 20:44
  • The easiest thing to do would be to insert the full path, avoiding any confusion, like so: define('CRAFT_BASE_PATH', ('/home/pathToCraftFolder/craft'));
    – noregt
    Commented Apr 16, 2018 at 11:47

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