Apache Mod Rewrite For Laravel

Question

I have an installation of Laravel on Wampserver. The directory is as follows:

C:\wamp\www\laravel

Now URLs are like this:

http://localhost/laravel/public/index.php/home/index

So I used the following htaccess code

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -indexes
DirectoryIndex index.PHP
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.PHP|images|robots.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_ FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_ FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L, QSA]

To reduce the URL to

http://localhost/laravel/public/home/index

But the laravel framework insists that all application files reside in the public folder.

So I would like to know what I need to add to (or subtract from) the htaccess file so that the URL can look like

http://localhost/laravel/home/index

Thanks

Answer 1

When testing locally I do one of two things.

1. Create a new .htaccess below the public directory with the following.

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

2. Create a new virtual host. With WAMP you can navigate to C:\wamp\bin\apache\YOUR APACHE VERSION\conf\extra and find your httpd-vhosts.conf file, in there you can see example virtual hosts. Here's one of mine:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
       DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/laravel/public"
       ServerName laravel.dev
       ServerAlias www.laravel.dev
   </VirtualHost>
   

   Make sure that your vhosts configuration file is being included. Open up your httpd.conf file and search for the vhosts file, uncomment the include line if it's commented out. Then I open the CLI and enter notepad "C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" which opens up your hosts file. Underneath the item that mentions localhost place your new host. Here's an example.

   127.0.0.1  laravel.dev
   

   Make sure you restart Apache and bingo, you should be able to navigate to http://laravel.dev and you won't have any annoying public directory. This is how I achieve it, as I prefer the nicer looking virtual host rather then a long winded localhost URL.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I finally figured a way out. First of all, I had to open and edit my Apache httpd.conf by selecting it from the Wamp Aestran tray menu. The I had to uncomment the line

#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

After that, I opened the file which is located at the

<wampdirectory>/bin/apache/apache.x.y.z/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

then I added the following lines.

#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80


<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"
    ServerName localhost
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    <Directory "C:/wamp/www">
        AllowOverride All
        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.1
        #If you want to allow access from your internal network
        # For specific ip addresses add one line per ip address
        #Allow from 192.168.0.100
        # For every ip in the subnet, just use the first 3 numbers of the subnet
        #Allow from 192.168.0
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

## must be first so the the wamp menu page loads when you use just localhost as the domain name

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/sites/laravel/public"
    ServerName laravel.dev
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    <Directory "C:/wamp/sites/laravel/public">
        AllowOverride All
        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.1
        #If you want to allow access from your internal network
        # For specific ip addresses add one line per ip address
        #Allow from 192.168.0.100
        # For every ip in the subnet, just use the first 3 numbers of the subnet
        #Allow from 192.168.0
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The next step was to edit my hosts file at C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

and added

127.0.0.1 laravel.dev

Then restarted Wamp and it worked. Thanks to you guys for pointing me in the right direction. Really Appreciate it