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Avoid public folder of laravel and open directly the root in web server

I was going through all possible sample on internet to solve this. Still it is an headache.

I just want to avoid the 'public' in www.mylaravelsite.com/public/ and make it like www.mylaravelsite.com for the root directory.

Now I do not want to avoid the security concern,So I learned .htaccess would be the best way.

Any solution friends ?

& advance thanks for interacting !

Solution

  • Let's assume you have this folder structure in your server

    .cpanel/
public_html/
public_ftp/
..

    And the laravel folder structure is

    app/
bootstrap/
public/
vendor/
composer.json
artisan
..

    You can create a folder name mylaravelsite on your server inline with public_html and public_ftp folder, and copy to it the whole laravel application except the public folder because you will paste all of it contents on the public_html, so you have now:

    .cpanel/
public_html/
public_html/packages
public_html/vendor
public_html/index.php
public_html/.htaccess
...
public_ftp/
mylaravelsite/
mylaravelsite/app
mylaravelsite/bootstrap
...

    On your public_html/index.php change the following line:

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

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

    to

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

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

    and also don't forget to change /mylaravelsite/bootstrap/paths.php public path, you might use it.

    'public' => __DIR__.'/../public',

    to

    'public' => __DIR__.'/../../public_html',

    Your site should be running.