Specify a different public path

Question

My Laravel app works in the private folder and I need to tell Laravel that the public path is different. Today I have upgraded a Laravel app from 4.2 to 5.0 and I can't find where we specify the public path since the paths.php file doesn't exist anymore in Laravel 5.0.

In laravel 4.2 we had the /bootstrap/paths.php file:

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Public Path
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| The public path contains the assets for your web application, such as
| your JavaScript and CSS files, and also contains the primary entry
| point for web requests into these applications from the outside.
|
*/

'public' => __DIR__.'/../../../public_html',

I'm not used with the Laravel 5.0 folders structure yet, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

What worked for me flawlessly was adding to public/index.php the following three lines:

$app->bind('path.public', function() {
    return __DIR__;
});

This was answered at Laracast.