Laravel redirecting project to "projectURL/public/public" - php

Question

first of all this are my laravel and PHP versions:
Laravel Framework 7.17.2
PHP 7.3.19 (cli)
I am having a wierd problem with my laravel project:
in my vhost file I have:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.name.test
DocumentRoot "C:\web\name\name\backend\public"
</VirtualHost>
in the hosts file:
127.0.0.1 www.name.test
when trying to acces the project by typing:
http://www.name.test
it redirects me to the url
http://www.name.test/public/public
I have .htaccess in my root folder and in the public folder with the following :
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews -Indexes
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]
# Send Requests To Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
I dont know why this started to happen, previously it was working fine but sth I gues was changed accidentally on the project since it happens in everycomputer, so it does not look like a php configuration problem.
hope someone can give some tip about the issue.

Answer 1

There are 2 ways to fix this issue:
Step 1:
Just rename your server.php to index.php file present in your project root directory.
Step 2:
Copy index.php present inside public folder of your project root directory and paste it inside the root directory. Make sure there is no other index.php present before.
Then replace these 2 lines:
require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';
require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';
with
require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/app.php';
Hope either of the 2 ways helps!!