URL Rewrite | hide /public

alex32

I'd like to hide /public from my url: forum.example.com/public
I tried to add the following to /public/.htaccess but it doesn't work, and I could not find more in this forum.
Could you please help. Many thanks

/public/.htaccess | ver 1

# remove  /public from URL
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/public
RewriteRule ^public/(.*)$ https://forum.example.com/$1 [L,NC,R=301]

/public/.htaccess | ver 2

# remove  /public from URL
RewriteRule ^public/(.*)$ $1

clarkwinkelmann

alex32 the public folder is not meant to be hidden/redirected. The recommended installation method is to use the public folder as intended by changing the DocumentRoot in your Apache configuration to point to that folder, making it the new root of the website.

Or if changing the DocumentRoot is not an option for you, then you can move the files around to remove the folder entirely as described in our documentation https://docs.flarum.org/install#customizing-paths

alex32

Thank you