How to make a correct redirect to Laravel 5.5 in public?

Question

htaccess

The redirect is already working i.e. if we write: site.ru/about
everything works correctly.
However, if you write in the address bar: the site.ru/public/about
desired page will also be displayed and the links in the main navigation will change to:
site.ru/public/home
site.ru/public/products
Links in the navigation menu are formed in this way:

<li><a href="{{ route('about') }}">О компании</a></li>

htaccess at the root looks like this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]

Tell me, please, how to deal with this public once and for all?

Answer 1

This is a very popular problem when setting up a project, for some reason everyone always directs their server to the root directory,
although in frames they almost always make the web directory a separate folder, hence the questions ... in Lara it's a folder public, in Yii2 it's a folder web
Customize it is possible, but when they begin to complicate the application - footcloths of configs with problems climb.
There is only one correct solution - to direct the server to the folder with the index.php file, that is, for the web server, the root will be in your folderpublic