Laravel's .htaccess to remove "public" from URL
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>Place this file in Laravel's root directory.
Please note that this isn't the recommended way. A safer way is place Laravel's files outside your web server root and make the Laravel's public directory your web server root. Don't forget to update the paths.php file.
Written by Héliton Nordt
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I tried this and it doesn't work for me - I keep getting a 404 error from Laravel. Any thoughts on how I could troubleshoot?
I had the same problem as tridnguyen. This method only works if the base laravel folder is the webroot, it wont work if the base laravel folder is a subfolder of the webroot
Here is where I found the answer. Tested in local and production server:
http://creolab.hr/2013/03/removing-the-public-segment-in-a-laravel-4-app/
just for the guys using IIS like me, my solution (workaround, I'd say) was to strip index.php from the url by importing the standard .htaccess and then I create a virtual directory, say "employees" pointing to D:\inetpub\wwwroot\lv\employees\public; then navigating thru localhost/employees/controller/method seems to work fine.
I has try, but it don't, my apache use port 8080.
@tridnguyen make sure that you have configured htaccess with your web server, Apache, correctly. For rewriting htaccess for Laravel on shared hosting, it is necessary that the htaccess must be setup on Apache first.
I think this method only works if the base laravel folder is the webroot. I tried , but it didn't instead this I keep getting a 404 error from Laravel.
Is this method valid for both Laravel 4 and Laravel 5?
I have wire detail article on it, check it out https://onlinecode.org/how-to-remove-public-from-url-in-laravel-onlinecode/
