Laravel PHP Framework

Making Subdirectories Accessible without a Public folder

Technically there is some risk to this since it could potentially expose configuration files in the root directory. I negate this somewhat by adding a DENY rule to .env files. I still wouldn't recommend it for a production site, but I find it useful for development and preventing the need to create apache config files for every Laravel project.

- Create a Laravel project

laravel create newproject

- Rename the 'server.php' file to 'index.php' in the root directory

- Add a .htaccess file to the root directory:

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

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /hello/index.php/$1 [L]

</IfModule>

<Files .env>
    Order Allow,Deny
    Deny from all
</Files>

Note: Customize the RewriteRule line to match your subdirectory.

NGINX Setup

This configuration is for NGINX with PHP and FastCGI using FPM:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  localhost;

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    }

    error_page  404              /404.html;
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    
    location = /50x.html {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }


    location /laravel/laravel2 {
        alias /usr/share/nginx/html/laravel/laravel2/public;
        try_files $uri $uri/ @laravel2;
        index index.php;

        location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
                include        fastcgi_params;
        }
    }


    location @laravel2 {
        rewrite /laravel/laravel2/(.*)$ /laravel/laravel2/index.php?/$1 last;
    }

    location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/nginx/html/$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }

}