My Routes are Returning a 404, How can I Fix Them?

Question

I've just started learning the Laravel framework and I'm having an issue with routing.

The only route that's working is the default home route that's attached to Laravel out of the box.

I'm using WAMP on Windows and it uses PHP 5.4.3, and Apache 2.2.22, and I also have mod_rewrite enabled, and have removed the 'index.php' from the application.php config file to leave an empty string.

I've created a new controller called User:

class User_Controller extends Base_Controller {

    public $restful = true;

    public function get_index() 
    {
        return View::make('user.index');
    }
}

I've created a view file in application/views/user/ called index.php with some basic HTML code, and in routes.php I've added the following:

Route::get('/', function () {
    return View::make('home.index');
});

Route::get('user', function () {
    return View::make('user.index');
});

The first route works fine when visiting the root (http://localhost/mysite/public) in my web browser, but when I try to go to my second route with http://localhost/mysite/public/user I get a 404 Not Found error. Why would this be happening?

Answer 1

Just Run in your terminal.

 composer dump-autoload

Answer 2

Try enabling short php tags in your php.ini. WAMP has them off usually and laravel needs them on.

Answer 3

Have you tried to check if

http://localhost/mysite/public/index.php/user 

was working? If so then make sure all your path's folders don't have any uppercase letters. I had the same situation and converting letters to lower case helped.

Answer 4

Routes

Use them to define specific routes that aren't managed by controllers.

Controllers

Use them when you want to use traditional MVC architecture

Solution to your problem

You don't register controllers as routes unless you want a specific 'named' route for a controller action.

Rather than create a route for your controllers actions, just register your controller:

Route::controller('user');

Now your controller is registered, you can navigate to http://localhost/mysite/public/user and your get_index will be run.

You can also register all controllers in one go:

Route::controller(Controller::detect());

Answer 5

I was getting the same problem using EasyPHP. Found that I had to specify AllowOverride All in my <Directory> block in httpd.conf. Without this, Apache sometimes ignores your .htaccess.

Mine ended up looking like this...

<Directory "D:/Dev">
    Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
    #### NEXT IS THE CRUCIAL LINE ####
    AllowOverride All                  
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
    Deny from all
    Require all granted     
</Directory>

Answer 6

Have you tried adding this to your routes file instead Route::get('user', "user@index")?

The piece of text before the @, user in this case, will direct the page to the user controller and the piece of text after the @, index, will direct the script to the user function public function get_index().

I see you're using $restful, in which case you could set your Route to Route::any('user', 'user@index'). This will handle both POST and GET, instead of writing them both out separately.