How to remove /public/ from a Laravel 10

@vincent15000 APP_URL=https:// domain.com

@argethink /public should not be part of your app URL. The app URL is the domain name that you’re expected to type in the browser’s address field to access the site’s homepage.

@kokoshneta I have tried both way. (APP_URL= domain.com/public and APP_URL= domain.com) . The results were same.

@argethink You should never specify the public folder in the APP_URL.

Furthermore you seem to confuse URL and domain.

• domain => domain.com

• URL => https://www.domain.com or https://domain.com

The APP_URL has to be the full URL APP_URL=http://www.domain.com or APP_URL=http://domain.com.

@vincent15000 I wrote it without https:// Because i signup today and laracast didnt allow me to write a link. APP_URL : https:// domain.com

@argethink Ok ... no problem ... so first you should modify the APP_URL to set it with the right value.

Concerning the .htaccess file, here is the one I'm using (try to add the RewriteBase line).

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    RewriteBase /

    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews -Indexes
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

    # Send Requests To Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
    
</IfModule>

@vincent15000 Thank you, i updated the .htaccess file as you mentioned. But i am still getting same error in https:// domain.com/public The error is too many redirections. It automatically downloaded a file. it's name is public without extention.

@argethink That's strange.

In the webhosting configuration to use your domain name, you have to point the domain to the public folder of the Laravel application.

Is it the case ?

@vincent15000 I have plesk panel and i only changed the document root to the public. Yes the case is correct.

@argethink But if you have Plesk and access to changing the document root… why do you need the .htaccess?

You’ve done something very wrong somewhere, because if you have access to the document root’s parent folder and deploy your app into it, then the URLs will not contain /public. You don’t need to mess around with .htaccess files or anything else for that to work.

@kokoshneta I have tried to solve this, firstly i changed the httacess in document root. In this case i had duplicate pages such as domain.com/contact and domain.com/public/contact . Google didnt like the duplicate page. Then i have tried to change the document root to the public. In this case i didnt change .htaccess Everything worked properly. But when i go to domain.com/public, i am getting error.

@argethink Why do you need to go to the domain.com/public folder in the browser ?

@argethink You should not need to change anything in your server’s .htaccess file for Laravel to work.

Please show us the folder structure on your server where your app is located, and which directory in that structure is the document root, because something is very wrong in your setup.

@vincent15000 i ony want to understand why it has such a error.

@kokoshneta document root

app
bootstrap
config
database
public
resources
routes
storage
tests
vendor
.htaccess # it is for only first case
.env
composer.json
...
and other files related to laravel.

public root

.htaccess
index.php
robots.txt

@argethink Well, that shows your mistake.

The document root (i.e., the directory whose contents the server outputs if you go to domain.com) should be the public directory. Everything else in your Laravel app should be outside the document root.

There is no such thing as ‘public root’. public is just the name of a folder, nothing more – but it’s the folder that should be the document root. So let’s say your website is located inside /var/www on the server, your structure should look like this:

/var/www/app
		 bootstrap
		 config
		 database
		 public  <-- this is the server’s document root
		   index.php
		   robots.txt
		 resources
		 routes
		 storage
		 tests
		 vendor
		 .env
		 composer.json

Since you say you have access to Plesk and can change the document root for the site, you should set it to /var/www/public in the above example (using the absolute path to the public folder on the server).

@kokoshneta @vincent15000 Thank you for your clarification, I am really appreciate you. I have found my mistake. I checked the browser cache then i deleted browser cache. After the deletion, the second case work perfectly.

@argethink if you expose the root laravel project, (containing the public folder), you also risk exposing .env and storage log files.

You should take advice seriously and set your web server to serve the public folder as its document root, making everything else unreachable, and restore your .htaccess file back to the default. Finally set app_url to be your bare domain name.

@Snapey I really appreciate you, I have took this advice, thank you.

@argethink If you have solved this problem, you can close the post.

@vincent15000 I closed the post, thank you again.