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

Problem is if you type /public and it will still be available in the url, therefor i created a fix which should be placed in the public/index.php

  $uri = urldecode(
     parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH)
  );

  if(stristr($uri, '/public/') == TRUE) {

    if(file_exists(__DIR__.'/public'.$uri)){

    }else{

      $actual_link = (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] === 'on' ? "https" : "http") . "://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}{$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']}";
      $actual_link = str_replace('public/', '',$actual_link);
      header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
      header("Location: ".$actual_link."");
      exit();
      return false;
   }}

this peace of code will remove public from the url and will give a 404 and then redirects to the url without the public