这部分htaccess出了什么问题

Question

For a customer of mine I'm building a website. For this I use the Laravel framework. Now I know the best practice is to set the public directory as DocumentRoot, but the problem is, I can't. So I've done some research, and I saw that you could use .htaccess to handle this little problem. The snippet that's on the laravel forums is the following:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

But when I try this, I get a 500 Internal Server error. I found that the problem was the (.*) part of the fourth line... But I just can't see what's wrong with it.

So does anybody know what's wrong with this snippet, why am I getting a 500 error...

Answer 1

You're almost there. REQUEST_URI includes the leading slash /. So you must say

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public