Symlinks deactivated by hoster / 500-error

I am runing a ci-4.2.3 website on shared webhosting with php 8.1. Recently, the hoster implemented a hotfix that deactivated symlinks because of security issues.

Now, I am getting an `error 500` and have no idea how I could fix this.

My installation has the following folder structure

httpdocs
|– ci-4.2.3
      |– app
      |– public
      |– system
etc.

I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

See the log to find the error cause.
https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/insta...error-logs

And if you cannot use symlinks, just fine not to use symlinks.
Why do you use symlinks?

ci-phpunit-test | CodeIgniter Testing Guide | CodeIgniter 3 to 4 Upgrade Helper

Solved.
(I found out, that an .htaccess file within the public folder was no longer allowed after the server configuration changed)