How to make public folder as root in Laravel?

Question

I use Laravel framework. As you know, its directory looks like this:

To open the homepage of my website (Route::get('/', 'HomeController@index');) I need to open /public folder of directory. In other word, to see the first page of my website, here is the URL:

http://example.com/public

anyway, only my domainname (http://example.com/) isn't my root. How can I make /public folder as root?

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Curently I've found a workaround. I can create an index.php on the root and write a redirect code to /public folder. So when user enters http://example.com/, it will be redirected to http://example.com/public automatically. But still that's ugly. I don't like to see /public in the URL. Any suggestion?

Answer 1

Do not mofidy any Laravel files. Use web server (Apache or Nginx) to point Laravel project to public directory.

For Apache you can use these directives:

DocumentRoot "/path_to_laravel_project/public"
<Directory "/path_to_laravel_project/public">

For nginx, you should change this line:

root /path_to_laravel_project/public;