Installing Symfony on Hostinger (Shared Server)

Hello friends, how are you?

Today I'm here to talk about the procedure for installing Symfony on a Hostinger shared server. Along the way, I had several doubts about how to install the project. One of them was with the .htaccess file, PHP version, domain, and I was even unsure whether my shared server plan was sufficient or whether I would need to migrate to a VPS. Among my questions, I asked one about the server's folder structure, whether it should follow some logic for it to work. The employee who helped me told me it wasn't necessary.

However, I continued my investigation. The first thing I did was analyze how Hostinger's automatic installer worked, especially for Symfony. I installed Symfony with the auto installer, but a 500 error occurred on the page where the project is redirected. Well, I installed the dependencies, and the errors persisted. I decided to delete the entire project, but I realized that the web folder had "something special". After all, the website, when created, was redirected to her. With this in mind, I created a new installation of Symfony version 7.2 using the composer2 command within this folder and, when accessing the domain with the path /web/public, I was able to see the website in operation.

Installation Step by Step

1 - Access your account and go to "add website". After that, create an empty PHP website, add your domain or use a temporary one.

2 - Click "auto installer", then "other" and select Symfony.

3 - Configure the site administrator data and check if your settings are the same as mine.

4 - In the PHP information section, make sure you have these extensions and that version 8.3 is selected.

5 - Access your website URL and see this screen:

6 - Then, SSH access your server (you will need to configure it) and use the following commands:

   cd domains
   cd nome_do_website
   rm -rf public_html/
   mkdir public_html
   cd public_html
   mkdir web
   cd web
   composer2 create-project symfony/skeleton:"7.2.x-dev" .

7 - Access your website's URL with the path /web/public and see your Symfony web app working!

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Final Considerations

• Clone your repository and use Git to manage updates.
• Use a cron job with a Bash script to keep your site up to date.
• It is important to note that Hostinger uses the composer2 command for the latest Composer (version 2). If you only use composer, it will use version 1.

I hope this article helps everyone who has difficulties installing a project on Hostinger using Symfony. I wrote this article with the aim of helping the community and avoiding problems like the ones that happened to me. If you liked it, leave a like and comment if it worked. Thank you!

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