I've set up my VPS server and am trying to set up a Laravel project.
I have a /public_html/ folder with an index.html that's shown when visiting the website URL.
- I have a laravel project in:
/public_html/project_one/ - The original index.php is located in
/public_html/project_one/public/index.php
I want the website to show to Laravel project_one by default, but since yesterday I literally googled this for 4 hours, I tried every solution on stackoverflow, nothing worked... I think I've tried over 10 versions of .htaccess I could find.
The question:
Does anyone know how to setup the .htaccess inside /public_html/ so it redirects to my Laravel project?
I though I needed to upload my Laravel folder in: /public_html/project_one/ but is there a better location?
I want the main url to show the Laravel project. So www.mainurl.com is Laravel's project_one/public/index.php file. I do not want /project_one/ to be written in the URL!
Just out of curiosity, if I now visit: www.mainurl.com/project_one I get a 403 forbidden.
Failed solutions
In /public_html/ I tried to add .htaccess with:
DirectoryIndex index.php
#Redirect to /project_one/public if you haven't already and the IP is okay
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^1\.2\.3\.4*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/project_one/public
RewriteRule ^(/lucaphoto)?(.+) /project_one/public$2 [L]
#if IP does not match and you ARE in the folder, then Redirect to root
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^1\.2\.3\.4*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/project_one/public
RewriteRule .? / [R=301,L]
This gives me something really strange:
- On Chrome: it redirects me to www.mainurl.com/project_one -> And then gives me a 403 forbidden error.**
- On safari: it redirects me nowhere but gives me this error:
Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Laravel's original .htaccess File
By the way, Laravel has an original .htaccess file at /project_one/public/.htaccess. And it looks like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>
