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

There is always a reason to have a public folder in the Laravel setup, all public related stuffs should be present inside the public folder,

Don't Point your ip address/domain to the Laravel's root folder but point it to the public folder. It is unsafe pointing the server Ip to the root folder., because unless you write restrictions in .htaccess, one can easily access the other files.,

Just write rewrite condition in the .htaccess file and install rewrite module and enable the rewrite module, the problem which adds public in the route will get solved.

Answer 2

Just create .htaccess file at root and add these lines to it

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

That's it!

The above code works on the root public_html folder. Having said that your core laravel file should be inside the public_html folder, if your directory looks like public_html/laravelapp/public and if you put the above code inside laravelapp it won't work. Therefore you must copy all your core files into public_html and put the .htaccess file there .

If you want to keep the code in a subdirectory then you can create a subdomain then this code will work for that also.

Answer 3

It's possible to remove public url in laravel5. Follow these steps:

step 1.copy all file from public and paste on root directory

step 2.open index.php file replace with

 require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php';

to

 require __DIR__.'/bootstrap/autoload.php';

and

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';

to

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/app.php';

And remove all cache and cookies.

Answer 4

I know that are are a lot of solution for this issue. The best and the easiest solution is to add .htaccess file in the root directory.

I tried the answers that we provided for this issue however I faced some issues with auth:api guard in Laravel.

Here's the updated solution:

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

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
    RewriteRule .* - [e=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]

    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>

Create the .htaccess file in your root directory and add this code. And everything goes right

Answer 5

Create .htaccess file in root directory and place code something like below.

<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>

Create .htaccess file in /public directory and place code something like below.

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

RewriteEngine On

# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 6

Another method that I use is to create a symbolic link (in Linux, don't know about Win) using the ln command in htdocs or www i.e. ln projectname/public project The site is thus accessible via localhost/project