How to use PHP with MVC pattern on 000webhost?

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#1

I implemented a simple MVC pattern on my site and it works fine on my pc using XAMPP. Now I want to host the site here but had some problems. This GitHub respository shows how my files are organized on 000webhost file manager.

  1. Should I put ALL files inside the public_html folder (including models, views, controllers) or only the general MVC public content (primary index.php, css, js…) like I did?
  2. Why am I getting the following error when oppening the site?

Warning: require_once(…/app/controllers/home.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /storage/h6/242/1091242/app/core/App.php on line 20

#2

Your app structure can be as it is in github repository. What you need to fix is the relative path to the files.

Try changing this line https://github.com/guizoxxv/my-mvc/blob/master/public_html/index.php#L3

to require_once __DIR__ . '/../app/init.php';

#3

I’ve tried your suggestion but it didn’t worked. I get HTTP ERROR 500. I can tell that the path ../app/init.php is working as the error occurs at app/core/App.php line 20 which is a file required in init.php.

I discovered the problem. The path ../app/controllers/home.php does not find the file because the file is Home.php (uppercased H). I didn’t realized this because it works fine in my pc with XAMPP. I believe that XAMPP’s Apache is configured in a way that allows case insensitive URLs which does not happens in 000webhost and I don’t know how to do it.

Thank you.

#4

000webhost is linux servers and it cares about lowercase and uppercase file names. So make sure your are using correct ones.