Run the website on sub-folder on sub-domain from public folder without public path in URL

Question

Usually, I create a sub-domain and change the Document Root to the public folder like public_html/subdomain/public so when I visit https://subdomain.example.com it runs from the public folder without needing to add the public path in the URL.

Now I have a Laravel project on a sub-folder on a sub-domain public_html/subdomain/subfolder and I want to run the project from the public folder to avoid this https://subdomain.example.com/subfolder/public.

The website is hosted on a VPS server so I have access to everything.

How to make the project on the subfolder on the subdomain runs from the public folder without adding /public to the URL?

I tried this .htaccess:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [L,QSA]

But it appends /public to the URL.

Answer 1

Move all the files which are in the public_html/subdomain/subfolder except public folder And make a new folder at public_html/subdomain/main which is

main

and move all the files to the main folder after that move all files and folders from public to public_html/subdomain/subfolder and edit your index.php which will be looks like this

<?php

/**
 * Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
 *
 * @package  Laravel
 * @author   Taylor Otwell <taylor@laravel.com>
 */

define('LARAVEL_START', microtime(true));

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Register The Auto Loader
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Composer provides a convenient, automatically generated class loader for
| our application. We just need to utilize it! We'll simply require it
| into the script here so that we don't have to worry about manual
| loading any of our classes later on. It feels great to relax.
|
*/

require __DIR__.'/../main/vendor/autoload.php';  // previous line require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Turn On The Lights
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| We need to illuminate PHP development, so let us turn on the lights.
| This bootstraps the framework and gets it ready for use, then it
| will load up this application so that we can run it and send
| the responses back to the browser and delight our users.
|
*/

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../main/bootstrap/app.php'; // add main here also

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Run The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Once we have the application, we can handle the incoming request
| through the kernel, and send the associated response back to
| the client's browser allowing them to enjoy the creative
| and wonderful application we have prepared for them.
|
*/

$kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);

$response = $kernel->handle(
    $request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
);

$response->send();

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

You just need to edit 2 lines of code for that to work require DIR.'/../vendor/autoload.php'; to require DIR.'/../main/vendor/autoload.php'; And 2nd line is from $app = require_once DIR.'/../bootstrap/app.php'; to $app = require_once DIR.'/../main/bootstrap/app.php'; And your folder structure should look like this public_html/subdomain

├── subfolder
│   ├── index.php
│   ├── .htaccess
├── main
│   ├── app
│   ├── bootstrap
│   ├── config
│   ├── database
│   ├── resources
│   ├── routes
│   ├── storage
│   ├── tests
│   ├── vendor
│   ├── .env
│   ├── artisan
│   ├── composer.json