Add an index page to the root pointing to the bootstrap dir

bootstrap/app.php

@@ -4,10 +4,6 @@ if(!defined('LUMEN_START')) {
     define('LUMEN_START', microtime(true));
 }
 
-if (!defined('DS')) {
-    define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
-}
-
 include_once __DIR__ . '/application.php';
 
 $app = new Application();

bootstrap/application.php

@@ -2,12 +2,18 @@
 
 use Illuminate\Foundation\Application as LaravelApplication;
 
+if (!defined('DS')) {
+    define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
+}
+
 /**
  * Customized container to allow some of the base Laravel
  * configurations to be overridden
  */
 class Application extends LaravelApplication
 {
+    private $publicPath;
+
     public function __construct(string $basePath = null)
     {
         parent::__construct(dirname(__DIR__) . '/');
@@ -42,6 +48,11 @@ class Application extends LaravelApplication
      * Override paths
      */
 
+    public function setPublicPath($publicPath)
+    {
+        $this->publicPath = $publicPath;
+    }
+
     public function configPath($path = '')
     {
         return $this->basePath . DS . 'config' . ($path ? DS . $path : $path);
@@ -59,7 +70,7 @@ class Application extends LaravelApplication
 
     public function publicPath()
     {
-        return $this->basePath . DS . 'public';
+        return $this->publicPath ?: $this->basePath . DS . 'public';
     }
 
     public function resourcePath($path = '')

index.php

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * phpVMS
+ */
+
+$path_to_phpvms_folder = __DIR__;
+
+require $path_to_phpvms_folder.'/bootstrap/autoload.php';
+
+$app = require_once $path_to_phpvms_folder.'/bootstrap/app.php';
+$app->setPublicPath(__DIR__ . '/public');
+
+$kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);
+
+$response = $kernel->handle(
+    $request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
+);
+
+$response->send();
+
+$kernel->terminate($request, $response);

public/index.php

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ require $path_to_phpvms_folder.'/bootstrap/autoload.php';
  */
 $app = require_once $path_to_phpvms_folder.'/bootstrap/app.php';
 
+$app->setPublicPath(__DIR__);
+
 $kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);
 
 $response = $kernel->handle(