Laravel 5 - Remove public from URL

For Laravel 5:

Follow steps below to remove "public" word from URL,

1) Rename the server.php in the your Laravel root folder to index.php

2) Copy .htaccess file from /public directory to your Laravel root folder.

3) Changing .htaccess file as follows for statics:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.css|\.js|\.png|\.jpg|\.gif|robots\.txt)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/
RewriteRule ^(css|js|images)/(.*)$ public/$1/$2 [L,NC]

If there are any other static files needed just add the extension to the previous declared list

And now its done!!!