How to remove 'public' from Laravel URL? - laravel

Question

I have a default laravel 8 project. I can only access my files if i use '/public/' to acess the route,and i do NOT want that. i just want to go 'localhost/ProjectName/Route' and not 'localhost/ProjectName/public/Route'.
I have tried changing .htacess, sending it to root,renaming server.php to index.php and a million other solutions i have found on the web.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews -Indexes
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Handle Authorization MemberHeader
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]
# Remove public URL from the path
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [L,QSA]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
this is my htacess

Answer 1

Make sure your webs server configuration has the public directory set as the root folder rather than the root folder of the Laravel project.

Answer 2

Replace your .htaccess file with following code. Please note, you don’t need to rename server.php to index.php or anything to remove /public name. Just using following code in your .htaccess file and you are good to go.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Result:
website.com/public/route to website.com/route
If you are trying to run laravel project in sub-folder within the root directory, above code won't work. Instead, use following code in your .htaccess file.
<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>
Result: website.com/sub-project/public/route to website.com/sub-project/route