Obviously, I've Laravel project that really needs the .htaccess
rules and Nginx doesn't seem to be the best solution for me,
1- my question is why Laravel didn't provide homestead with Apache! After a small research that I made I found online tool for converting the rules but the output didn't work (was too short), whereas, Apache is more likely known and usable, plus it's easier to define rules for security and pretty URLs ..etc. ( at least for me )
2- Please give me answers explaining why they choose Nginx!, more importantly I need to know what Seniors and Experts will use ( Nginx, Apache )
3- Do you advise me to install Apache on Homestead?
Add a key to your sites called type
. Set it to apache
. like so:
sites:
- map: laravel.local
to: "/home/vagrant/laravel"
type: apache
Make sure you don't mix up apache and nginx, that won't work.
Then run vagrant up
and to install apache and provision the right config files.
If it doesn't work, then first make sure to update to the latest version of homestead.
Here is an interesting article on the matter: https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-vs-apache-our-view/. TLDR: Nginx is faster.
Only when you have an existing project and you really need to use apache. Or in case your application is going to run on an apache server. Starting fresh? Use nginx.
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