laravel 5 only root route works

Question

I am new to laravel. I am using Ubuntu 15.04. I installed Laravel Framework version 5.1.7 (LTS) using composer and a lamp server using $ sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ command (I didn't install Homestead). I am using PhpStorm 8.0.3 as IDE.

I created three routes and a controller. The PagesController.php file looks like this:

class PagesController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        return 'Welcome to my homepage!';
    }

    public function about()
    {
        return 'Learn a little about me.';
    }

    public function hello()
    {
        return 'Hello World!';
    }
}

and the routes.php looks like this:

Route::get('/', 'PagesController@index');

Route::get('about', 'PagesController@about');

Route::get('hello', 'PagesController@hello');

Whenever I go to http://localhost:63342/my-first-app/public/ (or http://localhost:63342/my-first-app/public/index.php) it works fine and shows me the Welcome to my homepage! message. But whenever I go to http://localhost:63342/my-first-app/public/hello or http://localhost:63342/my-first-app/public/about, what I get is 404 Not Found message.

Also, the .htaccess file which is located at my-first-app/public looks like this:

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

    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

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

What I have tried:

• I tried http://localhost:63342/my-first-app/public/index.php/hello or http://localhost:63342/my-first-app/public/index.php/about but it doesn't work either.
• I entered command sudo a2enmod rewrite followed by sudo service apache2 restart but it doesn't work either.
• I tried composer dump-autoload but it doesn't work either.

• I changed AllowOverride from None to All in apache2.conf. Now part of it looks like this:

  <Directory />
      Options FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride All
      Require all denied
  </Directory>
  
  <Directory /usr/share>
      AllowOverride All
      Require all granted
  </Directory>
  
  <Directory /var/www/>
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride All
      Require all granted
  </Directory>
  
  <Directory /srv/>
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride All
      Require all granted
  </Directory>
  

  but it doesn't solve the problem either.

Update (7/15/2015):

The result of running php artisan route:list looks like this:

+--------+----------+-------+------+--------------------------------------------+------------+
| Domain | Method   | URI   | Name | Action                                     | Middleware |
+--------+----------+-------+------+--------------------------------------------+------------+
|        | GET|HEAD | /     |      | App\Http\Controllers\PagesController@index |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | about |      | App\Http\Controllers\PagesController@about |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | hello |      | App\Http\Controllers\PagesController@hello |            |
+--------+----------+-------+------+--------------------------------------------+------------+

Answer 1

Enable apache2 rewrite module:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Then restart the apache2 server:

sudo service apache2 restart

And make sure that AllowOverride All to your apache2 config file.

Answer 2

I have been having this annoying problem for a long time. Open .htaccess file in public folder and replace the following code, make a backup of your original code just in case.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

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

    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$1 ^(/.+)/(.*)::\2$
    RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=BASE:%1]

    RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
    RewriteRule ^index\.php(/(.*)|$) %{ENV:BASE}/$2 [R=301,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
    RewriteRule .? - [L]

    RewriteRule .? %{ENV:BASE}/index.php [L]

</IfModule>

Answer 3

Step 1: Enable mod_rewrite

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Step 2: To activate these changes restart Apache2

sudo service apache2 restart

Now check your web page is it working or not. If not follow Step 3.

Step 3: Edit Apache Configuration file

To Edit run below command:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

Then add following block of code below <VirtualHost *:80>

<Directory /var/www/html>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

Save the file and exit.

Restart apache2:

sudo service apache2 restart

It should be working fine now.

Answer 4

Altering .htaccess file would work in this scenario per laravel 5 official document as below:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]