Configuring laravel apache2 to load public fails - php

Question

I would like to configure laravel to whenever a user accesses domain/api he actually accesses the public folder
I have tried the following
1.Created a file laravel.conf with
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName ipaddress/api
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/api/public
<Directory /var/www/html/api>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Then
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf //disabled defaul loading
sudo a2ensite laravel.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart
But now the above fails
But on the virtualHost configuration when i make servername to ipaddress without api whenever i visit the ip address it reads api/public but i would like it to read api/public whenever a user visits
ipaddress/api.
What else do i need to add?
I was following
This tutorial

Answer 1

I'm not an expert on Apache configurations, so I'm not sure what's different between what you have and what the tutorial used.
However, I have a similar setup for my websites, however mine looks a little different:
DocumentRoot /var/www/website/public
<Directory /var/www/website/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
Put into context of your configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName ipaddress/api
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/api/public
<Directory /var/www/html/api/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Perhaps give that a try and see if that helps.