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

I have solved the issue using 2 answers:

1. Renaming the server.php to index.php (no modifications)
2. Copy the .htaccess from public folder to root folder (like rimon.ekjon said below)

3. Changing .htaccess it 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]
   

   If there are any other static files needed just add the extension to the previous declared list

Answer 2

In Laravel 5.5 create .htacess file in your root directory and placed the following code:- Reference Link

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </IfModule>

    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

</IfModule>

Answer 3

@rimon.ekjon said:

Rename the server.php in the your Laravel root folder to index.php and copy the .htaccess file from /public directory to your Laravel root folder. -- Thats it !! :)

That's working for me. But all resource files in /public directory couldn't find and request urls didn't work, because I used asset() helper.

I changed /Illuminate/Foundation/helpers.php/asset() function as follows:

function asset($path, $secure = null)
{
    return app('url')->asset("public/".$path, $secure);
}

Now everything works :)

Thank you @rimon.ekjon and all of you.

2020 Author's Update

This answer is not recommended. Instead, handling .htaccess file is recommended.

Answer 4

Problem is if you type /public and it will still be available in the url, therefor i created a fix which should be placed in the public/index.php

  $uri = urldecode(
     parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH)
  );

  if(stristr($uri, '/public/') == TRUE) {

    if(file_exists(__DIR__.'/public'.$uri)){

    }else{

      $actual_link = (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] === 'on' ? "https" : "http") . "://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}{$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']}";
      $actual_link = str_replace('public/', '',$actual_link);
      header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
      header("Location: ".$actual_link."");
      exit();
      return false;
   }}

this peace of code will remove public from the url and will give a 404 and then redirects to the url without the public

Answer 5

Create new file called .htaccess in root project folder and place the below code inside it :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 #Session timeout

<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
    Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>

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

</IfModule>

Note: If you changed server.php to index.php you also should rename it in above code

Answer 6

4 best ways to remove public from the URL.

If you used any other trick to remove the public from the URL like changes the name of server.php to index.php and changing into the core file path. Clearly, don't do that. Then why Laravel not giving the solution like this because it's not a proper way to do that.

1) Remove public from URL using htaccess in Laravel

By adding a .htaccess file into the root, You can access the website without public

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
    <ifmodule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </ifmodule>

    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

</ifmodule>

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2) Remove the public by creating a virtual host in your local

I am giving demo here for the Window operating system. But I will try to define a step so that anyone can easily follow the step. You can also research on google for the same for the particular operating system.

Step 1: Go to C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\ open the "hosts" file in Administrator mode.

Step 2: Add the following code to it. Here, I am giving you a demo of projectname.local domain name demo, you can specify any as you like. Just make it constant at every place.

127.0.0.1  projectname.local

Step 3: Now go to, C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra for xampp users and for the wamp user "C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.4.4\conf\extra" and open "httpd-vhosts.conf" file. Now add the following code into it.

Notes: Change the Document root as per your project also add domain name as you define into the "hosts" file.

<VirtualHost projectname.local>
      ServerAdmin projectname.local
      DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/projectdir"
      ServerName projectname.local
      ErrorLog "logs/projectname.local.log"
      CustomLog "logs/projectname.local.log" common
 </VirtualHost>

Step 4: Last but the important step is to restart your Xampp or Wamp and access the url like http://projectname.local and your Laravel will respond without public URL.

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3) Remove the public by running the command in Laravel

If you are working in local then you don't need to do anything just need to run the following command from your terminal or command line tool. After that, you can access your website by provided URL by the command line.

   > php artisan serve

If you are willing to run your project on particular IP then you need to run following command. If you are working on LAN then if you want to allow other people to access your website from local then you just need to check your IP address using command line by running "ipconfig" after getting your IP address run following the command.

> php artisan serve --host=192.168.0.177

If you are willing to run your project on a particular IP with particular port then you need to the following command.

> php artisan serve --host=192.168.0.177 --port=77

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4) Remove the public on the hosted server or on the cpanel

After completion of the project you need to host the project on the server, then you just need to set the document root on your domain to the public folder. Check the below screenshot.

As per screenshot if you don't have any project folder into the public_html then you just need to set your document root like "public_html/public".

Reference taken from here