Each route is showing 404 message on shared hosting

Question

I am trying to deploy a laravel application on A2Hosting shared hosting. My document root is: /public_html directory. I uploaded everything from my laravel application except the public folder to the /beta directory of hosting.

And then I uploaded everything from the public directory to the /public_html directory.

In my index.php file, I changed the following two lines:

require __DIR__.'/../beta/vendor/autoload.php';
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../beta/bootstrap/app.php';

Now I am only seeing the home page of my application correctly. That is, mydomain.com. Any hyperlink followed by mydomain.com is showing a 404 message. In my view files, this is how I am referring to a path:

<a href="/login">Login</a>

But after deploying the application, whenever I hit that link, i.e. mydomain.com/login, I get the 404 Not Found: The resource requested could not be found on this server! message. I tried changing /login to login in the <a> tag. Same result. How do I solve this?

Answer 1

Eisenheim, this is htaccess issue: get one .htaccess file in root folder of your web-project.

And put the following code inside it,

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
     RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Then try without index.php it should work perfectly.