Change default directory with .htaccess

[bare_nature]

Hello,

 

In spite of he many threads on this forum about mod_rewrite, I couldn't find what I was looking for (although I'm sure the solution is out there somewhere).

 

My question:

The root folder of my website contains three folders "includes", "logs", and "public". With mod_rewrite, I want to make sure that visitors automatically end up in "public". How do I go about doing this? I tried this with the following line in my .htaccess (in the root folder):

DirectoryIndex public/index.php

 

It seems, though that all my links are broken when I do so. It can't find stylesheets or images anymore.

 

As you might have guessed, I'm quite new to mod_rewrite and am eager to learn, help is more than welcome!

 

Bart