How do you redirect all request to public/ folder in laravel 5

Question

I have a classic Larevel 5 project structure and I need to redirect all requests to public/.

I am on a classic hosting environment so public/ is a subfolder of my document root.

I shall imagine it can be done via .htaccess but I still need to figure out how. Anyone can help?

Thanks

Answer 1

There are two solutions:

1. Using .htaccess with mod_rewrite

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L] 

2. You can add a index.php file containing the following code and put it under your root Laravel folder (public_html folder).

<?php header('Location: public/'); 

Answer 2

You don't need to change anything in Laravel's default public/.htaccess file.

Just create a new .htaccess in the same level your public folder and add the following content to it:

DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule ^$ public/index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^((?!public/).*)$ public/$1 [L,NC]

That simple!

Answer 3

This is an extract from another answer which may also help you.

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• Modify your public_html/.htaccess to redirect all requests to the public subfolder.

  # public_html/.htaccess
  
  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
      <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
          Options -MultiViews
      </IfModule>
  
      RewriteEngine On
  
      # Redirect All Requests To The Subfolder
      RewriteRule ^ /public
  
  </IfModule>
  

• Make sure you have the proper public_html/public/.htaccess (GitHub).

  # public_html/public/.htaccess
  
  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
      <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
          Options -MultiViews
      </IfModule>
  
      RewriteEngine On
  
      # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
      RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
  
      # Handle Front Controller...
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
      RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
  
      # Handle Authorization Header
      RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization}
      RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
  </IfModule>