How to issue .htaccess for Laravel?

Question

I have just launched a Laravel 5.3 project on a live server and all is going well except one.

But my issue is, my websites are running on all 3 different URLs:

1. example.com

2. example.com/public/index.php

3. example.com/<any-word>/index.php

My .htaccess is: (This file is in the root folder)

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,QSA,NC,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/index.php$1 [L]
</IfModule>

But I just want to see my website with example.com URL only.

Answer 1

You would need to issue an external redirect before your existing directives. For example, immediately after the RewriteEngine directive, try something like:

RewriteCond %{REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/index\.php(.*) /$1 [R=301,L]

Make sure you clear your browser cache when testing.

The RewriteCond directive, checking against REDIRECT_STATUS, prevents a redirect loop after the internal rewrite at the end.