Laravel 4 All Routes Except Home Result in 404 Err

Question

I installed Laravel 4 using Composer and also set up a virtual host. Currently, only the root route is working:

<?php

Route::get('/', function()
{
    return View::make('hello');
});

This is not:

Route::get('/hello', function()
{
    return View::make('hello');
});

What I'm trying to hit is TasksController at /tasks:

Route::resource('tasks', 'TasksController');

This is giving me 404 error as well. What could I be doing wrong? I have a default .htaccess file at the root of my project:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options -MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I am using localhost on a Mac.

Answer 1

It's pretty clear that the problem appears because of the "mod_rewrite", in some cases just enabling this module in Apache is enough to get it fixed.

However, in my case, I had to extend the configuration for the VirtualHost in the following way:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName adplus.local

    ServerAdmin [e-mail]
    DocumentRoot /var/www/adplus.local/project/public

    **<Directory "/var/www/adplus.local/project/public">
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>**

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

It's like @GaryJ & @MartinGomez said. This is the content of the .htaccess that should be set on the public folder for all your laravel 4 projects running on Apache server:

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

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

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

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

Answer 3

For Nginx users, you probably copied the the default virtualhost - but Laravel requires some customization on the location directive to allow the Laravel application to do the routing and not Nginx.

In your /etc/nginx/sites-available/your-site-name replace the location directive with this:

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}

Then run sudo service nginx reload to make the changes come into effect.

Answer 4

Had exactly the same problem.

Two things I needed to do to fix this:

1. enable rewrite_module in Apache

2. Change the AllowOverride from None to All, example (Apache 2.4.9):

   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Require all granted

FYI: use Laravel Homestead together with VirtualBox and Vagrant instead of WAMP. It contains Nginx instead of Apache but everything works by default as it is configured for Laravel explicitly.

Answer 5

I had a similar problem on Ubuntu 14.04 with Lumen 5.4.

The solution was two parts for me. First in my vhost file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/my_vhost.conf, I had to add the following <Directory> entry to allow overrides, after declaring my DocumentRoot:

    DocumentRoot /var/www/path/to/my/app/public

    <Directory "/var/www/path/to/my/app/public">
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride All

            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

Next, I had to enable rewrites with:

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

Answer 6

FOR UBUNTU USERS - tested for Ubuntu 18.04

1- Enable mod rewrite

sudo a2enmod rewrite

2- Change AllowOverride in apache conf file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Change the AllowOverride from None to All in this block

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

3- Restart Apache

sudo service apache2 restart