Laravel htaccess

Question

I've setup a new install of Laravel on my local. It appears there are issues with htaccess or Apache settings. I've researched for a number of hours and tried everything I read.

• OSX Lion 10.7.5
• MAMP 3.0.5
• PHP 5.5.10
• mod_rewrite is being loaded.

My development server works with other sites. This is the first time I am trying Laravel 4.

I get a 403 Forbidden on the welcome page which is located at website.dev:8888/

Apache gives me this error: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

Here is my .htaccess file content:

<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>

Here are a few additional actions I've taken:

• AllowOverride is set to All in httpd.conf
• Added virtual host code section to httpd-vhosts.conf
• verified that the hosts file contains a line for the site 127.0.0.1 website.dev

I've also tried various lines in the htaccess which I found in articles and I also restarted apache each time I made changes to the conf files. No routes work. When I go to website.dev:8888/public I get a blank page, no error. If I go to a route I created such as website.dev:8888/users I get a 404 not found error.

Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

The framework ships with a public/.htaccess file that is used to allow URLs without index.php. If you use Apache to serve your Laravel application, be sure to enable the mod_rewrite module.

If the .htaccess file that ships with Laravel does not work with your Apache installation, try this one:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

Answer 2

Answer

Heres what I found that worked. Delete the .htaccess file inside the /public directory and then put the following into the laravel installation's document root.

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Clarification

So for clarification if your laravel application is installed at /public_html/laravel you will look inside /public_html/laravel/public and delete the .htaccess file there. Then inside the /public_html/laravel directory make a new file called .htaccess

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Copy the code below to a new .htaccess file in the doc root

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

    RewriteEngine On

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

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

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Please note

As Concordus Applications noted in their answer here make sure that the Loadmodule mod_rewrite is uncommented (make sure there is not a # symbol behind it in your apache config file)

Concordus Applications also noted that you should have AllowOverride set to the appropriate setting. The example they gave was the following.

<Directory "/some/absolute/path/htdocs">
    Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory> 

Please make sure to restart your apache server if you made any changes to your apache config file.