Remove public from URL in laravel

Introduction#

How to remove public from URL in Laravel, there are many answers on internet but the easiest way is described below

How to do that?

Follow these steps to remove public from the url

1. Copy .htaccess file from /public directory to Laravel/project root folder.
2. Rename the server.php in the Laravel/project root folder to index.php.

Cheers you will be good now.

Please Note: It is tested on Laravel 4.2, Laravel 5.1, Laravel 5.2, Laravel 5.3.

I think this is the easiest way to remove public from the url.

Remove the public from url

1. Renaming the server.php to index.php

2. Copy the .htaccess from public folder to root folder

3. Changing .htaccess a bit as follows for statics:

   RewriteEngine On

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.css|.js|.png|.jpg|.gif|robots.txt)$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/ RewriteRule ^(css|js|images)/(.*)$ public/$1/$2 [L,NC]

Sometimes I’ve use this method for removing public form url.