Install Laravel 5 app in subdirectory with htaccess

Question

The Setup

I am trying to install a laravel 5 app in this directory on my server:

public_html/myapp/

And I want it to be accessed at th

Answer 1

You can easily achieve this by adding additional .htaccess file in the myapp folder (this will redirect all of your requests in myapp folder to the public as it should):

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]

You should also modify the .htaccess in your myapp/public directory, like this:

    Options -MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On    
    RewriteBase /myapp/

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule . index.php [L]

The change here is that you rewrite the base path RewriteBase /myapp/