How to run laravel in root directory without the public folder?

Question

I am running the latest version of laravel on my own server running Debian and Apache2.

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Answer 1

The following worked for me, as discussed here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16569078/3091980

Move all contents of the /public folder down a level. Then update the include lines in index.php to point to the correct location - if it's down a level, remove the "../".