Installing Laravel in a subdirectory - php

Question

I've been searching around for an answer to this and can't find anyone with my exact problem and was hoping someone else has had this issue.
I had Laravel installed locally using a vhost, and it was installed at the root. I've now had to move this install to another server at http://domain.com/~username, all my files are in /~username/ and I'm using .htaccess to access the public folder from http://domain.com/~username.
I've also set my paths correctly and my site URL in app.php.
Everything almost works except for my routes.
If I navigate to http://domain.com/~username I get a NotFoundHttpException
This is my route for my homepage:
Route::get('/', function() { ... });
if I change it to
Route::get('/~username', function() { ... });
it shows me the homepage. This isn't exactly ideal and kind of hacky, plus there's a lot more issues than just the homepage.
I'm having other issues with pretty much everything because Laravel thinks it's installed in the root folder, and not /~username/.
My question is how can I get Laravel to see that it's installed to http://domain.com/~username/ and NOT http://domain.com/?
EDITS: adding .htaccess files
My current .htaccess file in root (/~username)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /~username/
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /public/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^public/(.*)$ $1 [L,R=301,NE]
RewriteRule ^((?!public/).*)$ public/$1 [L,NC]
</IfModule>
and the .htaccess file in /public
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /~username/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

I might not have understood your question properly but here is my solution.
Go to /bootstrap/paths.php and change to:
return array(
'app' => __DIR__.'~username/../app',
'public' => __DIR__.'~username/../public',
'base' => __DIR__.'~username/..',
'storage' => __DIR__.'~username/../app/storage',
)
I'm not sure if this will work. I haven't tried it.