How to deploy Laravel 5.5 app to Godaddy cPanel shared hosting

I'm relatively new to Laravel. I'm confused on what is the proper way to deploy a Laravel 5.5 app to a Godaddy cPanel shared hosting. I've read multiple posts on the subject and they give conflicting advice.

Part of what I'm not clear on is do I copy all my files to the server and then run the following composer commands?: composer install --optimize-autoloader and php artisan config:cache

I get the part where I should create a folder on the server outside of the public_html folder, placing all of the app files there except what is in the app's public subfolder. If I want to run the app from a subfolder how would I do that? For example, http://ift.tt/2G0gliF

The examples I found where for only running it from the public_html folder itself. Would it just involve changing the file paths in the www/index.php?

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