Laravel remove public from url on localhost - laravel

Question

On production I have domain http://xxxx.com.
In root folder I added .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews -Indexes
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
And when I type in the browser: http://xxxx.com it works.
The same .htaccess file I have on my machine. I use XAMPP. And it doesn't work. When I type:
http://localhost:8082/myfolder
I get 404. When I type:
http://localhost:8082/myfolder/public
It works.
What is the difference between url in my hosting and on my local machine?
For the first answer:
this is a screen, maybe I'm doing something wrong (.htaccess is in the root folder), maybe .htaccess in the public folder is wrong:

Answer 1

This should work for you:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews -Indexes
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule !^public/ public%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC]
</IfModule>
The problem with your rule is that you're checking this condition:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/
Which actually checks for URI /public from web root however you have your site inside a subfolder locally. Here RewriteRule !^public/ will check if public/ is not there at the start after the current directory context, which will work the same in site root as well in a subdirectory.
Similarly for rewriting also make sure you don't use / before public/ to allow it to use a relative path.