Instsalling Laravel Nova in a subfolder

This is a guide that will show you how to install Laravel Nova in a subfolder of a domain.

Clone the repository

Clone the repository in the home directory of the cPanel user.

cd /home/user
git clone https://github.com/your/project.git /home/user/folder

Configure Laravel

This is just like you usually do, run the commands you need to make your Laravel install work. For example:

cd folder
composer install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate

Create a symbolic link

Make a symbolic link with the newly created folder on your public_html folder.

cd /home/user/public_html
ln -s ../folder/public folder

This will give us access to https://domain.com/folder. At this point, you should be able to see your Laravel application.

Update Nova's axios base URL

This will tell Nova to use the subfolder domain for the /nova-api/ requests. Open vendor/laravel/nova/resources/js/util/axios.js and add a base url to the config.

const instance = axios.create({
    baseURL: 'https://domain.com/folder'
})

Install the npm dependencies

cd /home/user/folder/vendor/laravel/nova && yarn

Rename the webpack

Rename the webpack.mix.js.dist to webpack.mix.js to be able to make a production build.

mv webpack.mix.js.dist webpack.mix.js

Compile the Nova scripts

yarn production

Move the compiled scripts

Now that you've compiled the scripts, you have to move them to them into /home/user/folder/public/vendor/nova.

mv /home/user/folder/vendor/laravel/nova/public/* /home/user/folder/public/vendor/nova/

Now at this point, your Nova should be loading properly, but once you login, you will notice a 404 page.

Fix the base url

Open /home/user/folder/vendor/laravel/nova/resources/views/layout.blade.php and look for window.config = @json(Nova::jsonVariables(request())); to add the following on the next line:

window.config.base = '/folder' + window.config.base;

This will tell Nova that the base url of the admin is located under the subfolder.

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