help asap .htaccess redirect

Need help with redirect rules on htaccess. I got a Heroku app that has a custom domain. I want to force the custom domain to always use HTTPS and redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS. Also, my app is a Laravel app so by default, the URL looks like this: [login to view URL] , i want to remove the "public" part so that the URL becomes [login to view URL] (App is located in a subdomain if that matters). This is my htaccess right now: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}/$1 [R=301,L] <IfModule mod_headers.c> <FilesMatch "\.(js|css|xml|gz|svg)$"> Header append Vary: Accept-Encoding </FilesMatch> </IfModule> And it works with the HTTP redirect to HTTPS, but I cant figure out how to point it to /public/ folder. Thanks