Redirect to subfolder invisibly htaccess PHP Apache - php

Question

my Website structure is as below:
root
|
|----- .htaccess
|----- public
|
|----- index.php (has all Autoload classes)
|----- application
| ---- controllers
| ---- models etc
Now you may have noticed that i have no index.php/.html in my Root directory and i deliberately did that because i want server to redirect by .htaccess.
I want to achieve that if you as a user visit website say:
http://localhost/testRedirect then it shall point to `public` folder
in the directory without showing public in the URL.
I tried blow solution from SO which claims to work like as i want:
Solution 1 [this simply show Directory structure :( ]
RewriteEngine on
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^localhost\$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^localhost\$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ public [L]
Solution 2 [Gives 404 :( ]
RewriteEngine on
RedirectMatch ^/$ /public/
Solution 3 [it redirects but shows public in the URL.
RewriteEngine on
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^localhost\$
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule (.*) http://localhost/testRedirect/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^$ public [L]
Please suggest some nice and working htaccess

Answer 1

Gags,
To do this, when running your server, set the document root to the /public folder.
If you are using apache, place this in the virtual host of the website settings.
DocumentRoot "/path/to/project/public"
Ref: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#documentroot
If you are using nginx, Place the following in the server{} of the website settings.
root /path/to/project/public;
Ref: http://nginx.org/en/docs/
For cPanel, Do the following
Log into cPanel.
In the "Domains" section, click the Addon Domains or Subdomains icon, depending on which you'd like to modify.
In the Modify a Domain section at the bottom of the page, click the icon next to the current document root for the domain you wish to modify.
In the popup window, enter the new document root and click Change.
Per the original posters details. BigRock has a tutorial at https://support.bigrock.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/613/9/adding-an-additional-domain-to-your-multi-domain-linux-hosting