How to hide public from url in laravel 9-CodePudding

I used Laravel 9 and Inertia.js Vuejs and the project has been deployed to the cpanel. When I access to the site and it threw an error saying Not Found with code 404 so then I added a new file - .htaccess outside the public folder and the error existed. I tried to access to public folder like this https://imapp.asomaningministries.com/public and it worked but I don't want anyone to eventually access to this folder. So can I hide it?

CodePudding user response：

You can try to set the document root directory as 'public' directory on the domain settings page of cPanel.

or you can use .htaccess file like that;

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain-name.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain-name.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !public/
RewriteRule (.*) /public/$1 [L]