Trying to remove public from url Laravel

I have this code in my .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On 
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

But it didn't work as you can see in the screenshot below:

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However if I change my .htaccess file to:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

Then I can see this on my browser:

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This is how my folder structure looks like:

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What have I tried?

I have already enabled my mod_rewrite in XAMPP to try to fix my solution. I had followed these steps in the link below:

Link: http://ift.tt/1IDXEef

via Chebli Mohamed