how to remove folder public in laravel

Question

I have laravel setup on xampp located in http://localhost/laravel but to test it I have to go to localhost/laravel/public How do I get rid of the

Answer 1

1. REMOVING .htaccess from root if you have created
2. take all files and folder from public to root directory
3. remove ../ from index.php
4. rename OR remove public folder