Laravel 5 – Remove Public from URL

Question

I know this is a very popular question but I haven\'t been able to find a working solution for Laravel 5. I\'ve been trying to migrate from Codeigniter for a long time, but

Answer 1

Even if i do not recommend putting Laravel on the root folder there are some cases when it could not be avoided; for those cases the above methods do not work for assets so i made a quick fix changing the htaccess: after copying server.php to index.php edit the .htaccess file like so:

    
        Options -MultiViews
    

    RewriteEngine On

    ### fix file rewrites on root path ###
    #select file url
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
    #if file exists in /public/
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/public/$1 -f
    #redirect to /public/
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
    ###############

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...

    #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d # comment this rules or the user will read non-public file and folders!
    #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f #
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

This was a quick fix i had to make so anyone is welcome to upgrade it.