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

You can remove public keyword from url using various methods.

1) If you are using dedicated hosting and you have root access then You can remove public keyword from url using Virtual Host. You should give DocumentRoot path with public. So this will start index from public directory and remove it from url.

    ServerAdmin info@example.com
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/{yoursourcedirectory}/public

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

2) If you dont have root access of your hosting then you should genarate a new .htaccess file in your root directory and put the code as below

    Options -MultiViews


RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ ^$1 [N]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (\.\w+$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ server.php

You can get more reference here.