.Htaccess exception makes problem in main directory

Question

Here is my directory structure

localhost or livehost
-app
-bootstrap
-public
-vendor
-code
-demo

Here is my .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On 
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/blog/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Here is my route

Route::get('/', 'Sys@Home');
Route::get('blog', 'Sys@Blog');
Route::get('contact', 'Sys@Contact');

To access this data, I do not want to enter my url as

localhost/public/
localhost/public/blog
localhost/public/contact

Instead, just enter

localhost
localhost/blog
localhost/contact

At the same time, it should not be applied to them in folders /codeand /demofor access to the directory.

So I had to write an exception from these directories from this question .htaccess exception for certain folders

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On 
    RewriteRule %{THE_REQUEST} /code
    RewriteRule %{THE_REQUEST} /temp
    RewriteRule ^ - [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/blog/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

After applying this, I can access the folder localhost/codeand

localhost/demo

But I can not access the folder, for example

localhost
localhost/blog
localhost/contact

How can I make this possible?

Answer 1

You can try:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On 
    RewriteBase /

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /(code|tmp) [NC]
    RewriteRule ^ - [L]

    RewriteRule ^((?!public/).*)$ public/$1 [L,NC]
</IfModule>