Laravel on a dedicated server

I'm trying to install laravel into a subfolder within public_html , within the folder where the application created the following .htaccess .

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

But now when I access through the URL I only get the error;

NotFoundHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 161:

I checked my route file if the path was correct and this one.

Route::get('/', ['as' => 'dashboard.login', function() {
  return view('dashboard.auth.login');
}]);

I got the "error", I can only access the application if I put /public after the domain, but I'm using this .htaccess that I commented above and it should remove this "public" correct?