Remove public folder in Laravel 5 using AWS EC2 or Beanstalk

In local environment I can navigatate to domain.com/app but in AWS it only works if I use domain.com/public/app. I have tried a number approaches to get it to resolve without public folder

I tried 2 different approaches already:

Added .htaccess mod_rewrite but it provides an error below.

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

Laravel NotFoundHttpException in compiled.php line 7610.

Added URL::forceScheme('https'); to AppServiceProvider.php but only changes the links inside views to https, does redirect when user enters into browser from http to https

I do not want to rename the server.php to index.php as this is not an optimally secure approach.

Any other way to get http to https without using Homestead?

via Chebli Mohamed