Made some changes to facilitate moving the public/ folder

bootstrap/app.php

@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ $app = new Illuminate\Foundation\Application(
     realpath(__DIR__.'/../')
 );
 
+$app->bind('path.public', function () {
+    return __DIR__.'/../public';
+});
+
 #$app->loadEnvironmentFrom('.env.php');
 $app->useDatabasePath(realpath(__DIR__.'/../app/Database'));
 

public/index.php

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 <?php
 
 /**
- * Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
+ * phpVMS
- *
+ */
- * @package  Laravel
+
- * @author   Taylor Otwell <taylor@laravel.com>
+/**
+ * If you move the public folder, or all the files in the public
+ * folder, be sure to go into the bootstrap/app.php file, and change
+ * the 'path.public' path to where it lives.
  */
 
 require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php';

public/index_sharedhosting.php

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-/**
- * Instructions on shared hosting...
- * Assuming you have a structure like this:
- * /home/your_user
- *      /public_html
- *      /public_ftp
- *
- * Place your PHPVMS folder so it's on the same level
- * as public_html, so it looks like:
- *
- * /home/your_user
- *      /public_html
- *      /public_ftp
- *      /phpvms
- *
- * Follow these steps:
- *
- * 1. Copy everything from the phpvms/public folder into
- *    public_html/
- * 2. Rename this file (index_sharedhosting.php) to index.php
- * 3. ???
- */
-
-
-require __DIR__.'/../../bootstrap/autoload.php';
-
-$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../phpvms/bootstrap/app.php';
-$kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);
-
-$response = $kernel->handle(
-    $request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
-);
-
-$response->send();
-
-$kernel->terminate($request, $response);