Deploy ZF2 site to shared host - zend-framework2

Question

When you deploy a Zend Framework website to a shared host, you usually cannot change the DocumentRoot to point at the public/ folder of the website. As a result the URL to the website is now http://www.example.com/public/. This doesn't look very professional, so I'd like to remove it. Up to now I have used ZF1 and Rob Allen kindly provides a method for doing this on his blog http://akrabat.com/zend-framework/zend-framework-on-a-shared-host/ . I have tried to modify this for ZF2. He proposes placing an index.php file in the root with the line:
include 'public/index.php';
After doing this, http://www.example.com opens the index page OK but the CSS links are broken. Rob adds a controller plugin to reset the baseUrl to /public to deal with public facing CSS and image files etc. To do this in ZF2 I found an item from Matthew Weier O' Phinney http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/Setting-the-base-url-in-ZF2-MVC-td3946284.html where he describes how to set the baseUrl. Based on his code I added this to modules/Application/Module.php
class Module {
public function onBootstrap(MvcEvent $e) {
$config = $e->getApplication()->getServiceManager()->get('config');
$router = $e->getApplication()->getServiceManager()->get('router');
$router->setBaseUrl($config['base_url']);
}
}
The base_url key is set in modules/Application/configs/module.config.php:
'base_url' => '/public'
I was able to dump the router object and confirm that the base_url was being set correctly at this stage. Unfortunately, now http://www.example.com no longer opens the index page and gives a 404 routing error.
Is anyone able to tell me what I am doing wrong or point me in the right direction for running a ZF2 site in a shared hosted environment?

Answer 1

Are you using the skeleton app?
that seems a little over the top, surely it's lot simpler than that.
move everything from public to the root
change index.php
<?php
/**
* This makes our life easier when dealing with paths. Everything is relative
* to the application root now.
*/
//chdir(dirname(__DIR__));
chdir(__DIR__);
// Setup autoloading
require 'init_autoloader.php';
// Run the application!
Zend\Mvc\Application::init(require 'config/application.config.php')->run();
Simples.
If you are running an application like this you may want to block direct access to some of the Zend Framework folders using htaccess etc