: How to publish 2 Laravel sites next to each other on a multi-domain account? I've got one account at Hostpapa that I use to host multiple domains. The public folder is /public_html and underneath

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I've got one account at Hostpapa that I use to host multiple domains.
The public folder is /public_html and underneath are folders for each domain.
This results in

/public_html
---/ beta
---/site.com
---/site.nl
---/site.eu

The .com, .nl and .eu site will become exact copies of one another in the future but the beta site should point to another laravel instance and will have a different configuration.

I'm now trying to publish the beta version.
What I tried already:

1) At first I copied the entire laravel directory structure inside the /public_html/beta directory but this doesn't seem to be the way to go.
(How to rewrite laravel /public directory)

2) My second attempt was to copy the contents of /laravel/public into the /public_html/beta folder and put the laravel folder inside the /public_html folder. Like this:

/public_html
---/laravel
---/beta
---/site.com
---/site.nl
---/site.eu

This doesn't work as the directory structure is broken when using relative paths.

3) On my 3rd attempt I removed the laravel folder and copied it's contents directly in /public_html:

/public_html
---/app
---/bootstrap
---/config
---/database
---/public
---/resources
---/storage
---/tests
---/vendor
---/beta
---/site.com
---/site.nl
---/site.eu

This should fix the problem with the relative paths but now I get errors when using route names:

Not Found The requested URL /routeName was not found on this server.

Even if this would work it would still bring me into trouble once I want to publish a production site next to my beta site.

Can somebody please point me in the right direction how to host 2 different laravel instances next to each other in one account? Thanks!