Lumen routes not working without index.php - php

Question

I have lumen installed in Vagrant VM (ubunty/trusty64). in my Vagrantfile have enabled config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10"
My directory structure inside VM is
var
- www
-html
-app
-bootstrap
-database
.... so on.
I made a virtual host inside VM /etc/apache2/sites-available/api.dukaan.pk with below contents
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#api.dukaan.pk
ServerName api.dukaan.pk
ServerAlias www.api.dukaan.pk
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Then i enabled it with sudo a2ensite api.dukaan.pk.conf. Restarted apache several times no luck.
Then in my host machine Windows 10 i put 192.168.33.10 api.dukaan.pk
Now in my app/Http/routes.php i defined two routes
$app->get('/', function () use ($app) {
return $app->welcome();
});
$app->get('/hello', function() {
return 'Hello World';
});
If i go to http://api.dukaan.pk/index.php/hello It works but if i remove index.ph from this url like http://api.dukaan.pk/hello it shows 404 page not found error.
There is default .htaccess and index.php file in my app/public directory.
Please help me getting rid of this index.php file
Thanks

Answer 1

In the apache instance running in your VM, the VHost you defined run in port 80. You need to be able to access this port 80 running in your guest (ubuntu) from your host machine (windows).
In your Vagrantfile you can define port forwarding to do this. Add this line to your Vagrantfile as stated here:
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 80, auto_correct: true
If port 80 is already use in your host machine (windows) by another process/server/anything, you can set another port than 80 for the host like:
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 8080, auto_correct: true

Answer 2

This solution worked for me. I added the AllowOverride All flag in my api.dukaan.pk.conf file like this
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#api.dukaan.pk
ServerName api.dukaan.pk
ServerAlias www.api.dukaan.pk
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public
<Directory /var/www/html/public>
AllowOverride All
</Directive>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
And here is the explanation for this change to work as per #tezla comment
based on the docs When this directive is set to All, then any
directive which has the .htaccess Context is allowed in .htaccess
files.

Answer 3

If you want to run lumen in subdirectory, use alias and this method worked for me, hope it helps somebody else.
In your Apache config file for which ever file is enabled in sites-enabled directory,
After your DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
add Alias /api "/var/www/html/<directoryname>/public" notice there is no trailing slash
and,
<Directory /var/www/html/<directoryname>/public>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
and rest are as it is. This should get the job done.