laravel the requested url was not found on this server

Question

I've an Ubuntu 14.04 kernel. I was installing my Laravel application in this server. After installing, I tried to set the root directory to public.

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

I have only these options in the file

<VirtualHost *:80>         # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port t$         # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating         # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName         # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to         # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this         # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.         # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.         #ServerName www.example.com          ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost         DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public/          # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,         # error, crit, alert, emerg.         # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular         # modules, e.g.         #LogLevel info ssl:warn          ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log         CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined          # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are         # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to         # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the         # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only         # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".         #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf </VirtualHost>  # vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet 

I've changed the Document root to

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public/ 

Now when I tried to access my Laravel App, through 123.xxx.xxx.xxx/ it shows the home page and working well. It gets all the GET variable too. Eg: 123.xxx.xxx.xxx?type=wefwef

But when I go to other links such as 123.xxx.xxx.xxx/login it gives me an error

Not Found  The requested URL /login/ was not found on this server.  Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at 104.236.234.85 Port 80 

I have the routes.php working well on localhost. But not on this server. Please help me.

Answer 1

This looks like you have to enable .htaccess by adding this to your vhost:

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

If that doesn't work, make sure you have mod_rewrite enabled.

Don't forget to restart apache after making the changes! (service apache2 restart)

Answer 2

I resolved by doing the following: Check if there is a module called rewrite.load in your apache at:

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ 

If it does not exist execute the following excerpt:

sudo a2enmod rewrite 

Otherwise, change the Apache configuration file to consolidate use of the "friendly URL".

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf 

Find the following code inside the editor:

<Directory /var/www/>     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks    AllowOverride None    Require all granted </Directory>  

Change to:

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

After that restart the Apache server via:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart