Laravel 4 removing public from URL

**BEST Approch**: I will not recommend removing public, instead on local computer create a virtual host point to public directory and on remote hosting change public to public_html and point your domain to this directory. Reason, your whole laravel code will be secure because its one level down to your public directory :)

**METHOD 1:**
I just rename server.php to index.php and it works

**METHOD 2:**

Here is my Directory Structure,

/laravel/
... app
... bootstrap
... public
... etc

Follow these easy steps

1. move all **files from public directory to root /laravel/**
2. now, no need of public directory, so optionally you can remove it now
3. now open index.php and make following replacements

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

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

and
> $app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/start.php';

to
> $app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/start.php';

4. now open bootstrap/paths.php and change public directory path:


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

to


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

and that's it, now try http:// localhost/laravel/