How Can I Remove “public/index.php” in the URL Generated Laravel?

I need to remove index.php or public/index.php from the generated URL in Laravel; commonly path is localhost/public/index.php/someWordForRoute, It should be something like localhost/someWordForRoute.

.htaccess

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

RewriteEngine On

# Redirect Trailing Slashes.
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

# Handle Front Controller.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php[L]

app/config/app.php

'url' => 'http://localhost',

How can I change that?

Option 1: Use .htaccess

If it isn't already there, create an .htaccess file in the Laravel root directory. Create a .htaccess file your Laravel root directory if it does not exists already. (Normally it is under your public_html folder)

Edit the .htaccess file so that it contains the following code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On 
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Now you should be able to access the website without the "/public/index.php/" part.

Option 2 : Move things in the '/public' directory to the root directory

Make a new folder in your root directory and move all the files and folder except public folder. You can call it anything you want. I'll use "laravel_code".

Next, move everything out of the public directory and into the root folder. It should result in something somewhat similar to this:

After that, all we have to do is edit the locations in the laravel_code/bootstrap/paths.php file and the index.php file.

In laravel_code/bootstrap/paths.php find the following line of code:

'app' => __DIR__.'/../app',
'public' => __DIR__.'/../public',

And change them to:

'app' => __DIR__.'/../app',
'public' => __DIR__.'/../../',

In index.php, find these lines:

require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php';     
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/start.php';

And change them to:

require __DIR__.'/laravel_code/bootstrap/autoload.php';     
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/laravel_code/bootstrap/start.php';

Source: How to remove /public/ from URL in Laravel

I tried this on Laravel 4.2

Rename the server.php in the your Laravel root folder to index.php and copy the .htaccess file from /public directory to your Laravel root folder.

I hope it works

Don't get confused with other option the snippet below I am using and will be useful for you too. Put the below htacces in your root.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule    ^$    public/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) public/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

Go to your public directory and put another htaccess file with the code snippet below

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    # Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs  
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [PT,L]

</IfModule>

Its working... !!!

Laravel Uses below .htaccess

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

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

1) Check whether mod_rewrite is enabled. Go to /etc/apache2/mods-enabled directory and see whether the rewrite.load is available. If not, enable it using the command sudo a2enmod rewrite.It will enable the rewrite module. If its already enabled, it will show the message Module rewrite already enabled.
2)Create a virtual host for public directory so that instead of giving http://localhost/public/index.php we will be able to use like that http://example.com/index.php. [hence public folder name will be hidded]
3)Then create a .htaccess which will hide the index.php from your url which shoul be inside the root directory (public folder)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

HERE ARE SIMPLE STEPS TO REMOVE PUBLIC IN URL (Laravel 5)

1: Copy all files form public folder and past them in laravel root folder

2: Open index.php and change

From

 require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php';

To

 require __DIR__.'/bootstrap/autoload.php';

And

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';

To

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/app.php';

In laravel 4 path 2 is $app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/start.php'; instead of $app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/app.php';/app.php

That is it.