How to issue and customize .htaccess for Laravel? - php

Question

I have just launched a Laravel 5.3 project on a live server and all is going well except one.
But my issue is, My websites are running on all 3 different URL.
My server is Ubuntu 16.4.
website.com
website.com/public/index.php
website.com/ any word /index.php
My .htaccess is: (This file is in the root folder)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,QSA,NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/index.php$1 [L]
</IfModule>
But I just want to see my website with website.com URL only.

Answer 1

Seems like your Laravel app is accesible via an Apache HTTP alias. Follow these steps
Try to navigate to your expected route prepend it with /index.php/, in your case: website.com/index.php/users. If it works (no 404) then you problem is with the Rewrite Module configuration of Apache HTTP, you should follow the next steps.
Edit the file public/.htaccess.
Under the line RewriteEngine On add RewriteBase / if files are on root directory if in folder like laravel then add RewriteBase /laravel/
Try to navigate to an existing route.
i.e
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,QSA,NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/index.php$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Remove /public from your Laravel
create a virtual host
go to /etc/apache2/sites-available create .conf file or update 000-default.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#example.com
ServerName website.com
ServerAlias www.website.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/index.html
<Directory /var/www/html/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =website.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.website.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,QSA,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

To only match the homepage, i.e. http://domainxyz.com/ you need to match the empty path (as mod_Rewrite removes the leading /.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domainxyz.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /view.php?page=process/ [NC,L]

Answer 3

Try using this in your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^website.com/([a-zA-Z-]*)/index.php [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.website.com/([a-zA-Z-]*)/index.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.website.com [L,R=302,NC]
Make sure you clear your cache before testing this. You will notice I've used R=302, this is a temporary redirect. If the redirect works and you're happy with it, then switch that to R=301 which is a permanent redirect.

Answer 4

This code worked for me. It will remove extention from your website e.g .php and all. Try it once.
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ $1.php [NC,L]

Answer 5

1. I understand why you are trying to change the .htaccess but this can be solved alot simpler. Revert the .htaccess file back to the Laravel standard
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
2. Move all of your folders and files apart from public and make sure they are behind your HTML folder.
3. Move all of your public folders and files out of the public folder and into your html folder
4. Tell laravel to look in your html folder instead of public by altering the server.php file
<?php
/**
* Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
*
* #package Laravel
* #author Taylor Otwell <taylorotwell#gmail.com>
*/
$uri = urldecode(
parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH)
);
// This file allows us to emulate Apache's "mod_rewrite" functionality from the
// built-in PHP web server. This provides a convenient way to test a Laravel
// application without having installed a "real" web server software here.
if ($uri !== '/' && file_exists(__DIR__.'/html'.$uri)) {
return false;
}
require_once __DIR__.'/html/index.php';
I find this solution a lot simpler than messing around with you htaccess. You also ensure all of the Laravel core files cannot be accessed from a url.
Other issue you are having (Internal pages)
This is probably due to your apache not allowing override with Laravels htaccess
Go to the command line of your server and access the apache2.conf file
cd /etc/apache2
Open the apache2.conf file with nano
sudo nano apache2.conf
Now locate the following
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
Change this to
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Writeout the changes and exit nano.
Restart apache
sudo service apache2 restart
It should now be working :)