How to make my route accessible without using public in shared hosting using laravel, I tried to use this .htaccess but it is not working

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]

Im currently using hostinger and my folder structure is

->public_html ->laravel files

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My index is inside public folder

I tried this .htaccess code but not working RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]

My index is inside public folder

CodePudding user response：

Move your index.php and .htaccess files under the public folder to parent folder.

Don't forget to fix the paths in your index.php file. Like this:

// require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php'; to...
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

Your project will be triggered in public_html.

CodePudding user response：

The best practice for this case is by creating htaccess like this : How do you redirect all request to public/ folder in laravel 5

But we still have a "not too recommended" trick to handle limited functionality of hosting provider :

1. Move all files in your project file (except "public" directory), and create new "private" folder. In this step, the "private" and "public" folder are in same level like this :

- private
   - app
   - bootstrap 
   - config
   - database
   - ...
- public
   - index.php
   - your_assets_or_anything
   - ...

2. Move all "public" directory content to root project. In this step, the directory structure will be like this :

- private
   - app
   - bootstrap 
   - config
   - database
   - ...
- index.php
- your_assets_or_anything
- ...

3. Last open the "index.php" file that currently in root directory, replace all /../ with /private/ . Example :

<?php

use Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

define('LARAVEL_START', microtime(true));
// ...
if (file_exists($maintenance = __DIR__.'/private/storage/framework/maintenance.php')) {
    require $maintenance;
}
// ...
require __DIR__.'/private/vendor/autoload.php';
// ...
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/private/bootstrap/app.php';

$kernel = $app->make(Kernel::class);

$response = $kernel->handle(
    $request = Request::capture()
)->send();

$kernel->terminate($request, $response);

Keep in mind that this trick have a security issue. You need to protect all private files from public access.